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transitive. To pluck or uproot from the ground (a root vegetable, crop, etc.). Cf. to pull up 1 at phrasal verbs.
To take up out of the ground (Scottish in general sense); Horticulture to dig up (potatoes, bulbs, etc.). Also occasionally intransitive, in to lif…