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grub up

grub up verb: to pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.

Verb

grub up (third-person singular simple present grubs up, present participle grubbing up, simple past and past participle grubbed up)

  1. (dated) To pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.
    • These are gothic notions of beauty—the ivy is beautiful, but, when it insidiously destroys the trunk from which it receives support, who would not grub it up?1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
    Synonyms:
    grub out

grub up meaning in Tamil

grub up in Tamil

to grub up, hoe; turn over ; dig; pick
கொத்து kottu

Synonyms of grub up

Forms of grub up

third-person singular presentgrubs up
present participlegrubbing up
past participlegrubbed up
pastgrubbed up

Questions about grub up

What does grub up mean?
Grub up means to pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.
What is grub up in Tamil?
Grub up in Tamil is கொத்து (kottu). See Grub up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grub up?
Grub up is a verb.
What is the past tense of grub up?
The past tense of grub up is grubbed up.

Words near grub up in the dictionary

  1. grub hut
  2. grub out
  3. grub screw
  4. grub screws
  5. Grub Street
  6. grub up
  7. grub-saw
  8. grub-saws
  9. grub-stake
  10. grub-stakes
  11. Grubaugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grub up (page history and authors); கொத்து (Tamil) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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