transitive. To pull up or out. Now only dialect, to pull up (weeds); to weed (corn).

transitive. To uproot, dig up by the roots. With out, up. Now chiefly Newfoundland.

transitive. To pull or dig up by the roots. Also figurative. Cf. uproot, v.1

transitive. To tear, pull, or dig up by the roots; to uproot. Also in figurative context and extended use.

transitive. To dig up by the roots; to grub up (roots). Chiefly with up.

To pull or dig out by the roots. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts: to remove, eradicate… transitive. Without construction.

transitive. With up. To pull up or root out completely. Now rare (English regional (Cheshire)).

transitive. To overturn (a tree or other plant) by the roots; to uproot. Earliest in figurative use.

transitive. Originally: †to uproot (literal and figurative), to eradicate; = supplant, v. 6 (obsolete). Later: to replace or supersede (a thing); cf…

transitive. To take up by the roots; to root out, uproot (a plant). Chiefly in figurative contexts, often in association with plant, n.1 or plant, v.…

transitive. To uproot or remove forcibly from a place.

To dig up by the roots, to root up, uproot: esp. with up, less commonly out. Also transferred and figurative.

transitive. To pull or tear up by the roots; to root out (a tree, plant, or anything that is spoken of as having ‘roots’).

to stump up. transitive. To dig up by the roots.

transitive. To pluck or tear up by the roots; to uproot, eradicate, exterminate. literal and figurative.

transitive. To tear up by the roots; to remove from a fixed position.

transitive. To pull up by the roots; to remove entirely.

transitive. To root out; to remove.

transitive. Of an animal, esp. a pig: to root or grub (something) up or out. Also in extended use: to bring to light; to extract by searching…

transitive. To pull up by the roots; to uproot, unroot.

transitive. literal. To uproot; to pick or scrape at, esp. with a pointed instrument or with the fingers. Also with off.