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grubbing up

grubbing up is the present participle and gerund 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 grubbing up

What is grubbing up the present participle and gerund of?
Grubbing up is the present participle and gerund of grub up.

Words near grubbing up in the dictionary

  1. grubbing hoe
  2. grubbing hoes
  3. grubbing ken
  4. grubbing kens
  5. grubbing out
  6. grubbing up
  7. grubbings
  8. grubble
  9. grubbled
  10. grubbles
  11. grubbling

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