uppluck

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verb

To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbuppluck (third-person singular simple present upplucks, present participle upplucking, simple past and past participle upplight or upplucked)

present singular third person upplucks · participle present upplucking · participle past upplight · past upplight · participle past upplucked · past upplucked · alternative up-pluck

  1. raretransitiveTo pluck up; pull up; deracinate.

    The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck.

    1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2
    3 more examples

    And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie.

    c. 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death

    The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]

    1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales

    For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...]

    1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt

Origin

  1. Middle Englishupplucken
  2. Englishuppluck

From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- + pluck.

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Chicago

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