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grubbed up

grubbed up is the simple past and past participle of grub up.

Meaning of grub up

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

Questions about grubbed up

What is grubbed up the simple past and past participle of?
Grubbed up is the simple past and past participle of grub up.

Words near grubbed up in the dictionary

  1. Grubb
  2. Grubb's catalyst
  3. grubbed
  4. grubbed along
  5. grubbed out
  6. grubbed up
  7. grubber
  8. grubber kick
  9. grubber kicks
  10. grubberies
  11. grubbers

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