root out

root out
verb
1. pull up by or as if by the roots (Freq. 1)
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uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

• Syn: ↑uproot, ↑extirpate, ↑deracinate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑deracination (for: ↑deracinate), ↑extirpation (for: ↑extirpate)
• Hypernyms: ↑move, ↑displace
• Hyponyms: ↑stub
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
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the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption

• Syn: ↑uproot, ↑eradicate, ↑extirpate, ↑exterminate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑extirpation (for: ↑extirpate), ↑eradication (for: ↑eradicate), ↑eradicator (for: ↑eradicate), ↑uprooter (for: ↑uproot)
• Hypernyms: ↑destroy, ↑destruct
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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[verb]
get rid of, abolish, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, remove, weed out

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I. transitive verb
Etymology: root (II)
: to remove altogether : eradicate, destroy

attempting to root out his mistakes — A.T.Weaver

powers to root out organized crime and political corruption — New York Times

movement to root the radicals out of American life — Oscar Handlin

II. transitive verb
Etymology: root (III)
: to turn over, dig up, or discover and bring to light

hogs rooting out truffles

spent the whole of March 8 rooting out those treasured possessions from holes and corners — Kenneth Roberts

a game which could root our grandfathers out of their beds at three o'clock in the morning — Stanislaus Lynch

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ˌroot ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they root out he/she/it roots out present participle rooting out past tense rooted out past participle rooted out] phrasal verb
to find something bad or illegal and get rid of it

The president vowed to root out corruption.

Thesaurus: to get rid of something or someonesynonym remove by cuttinghyponym
Main entry: root

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root out [phrasal verb]
root (something or someone) out or root out (something or someone)
1 : to find and remove (something or someone)

The mayor was determined to root out corruption in city government.

2 : to find (something or someone) after searching for a long time

He finally rooted out the cause of the problem.

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Main Entry: ↑root

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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