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grubs up

grubs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 grubs up

What is grubs up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grubs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grub up.

Words near grubs up in the dictionary

  1. Grubmeyer
  2. grubroot
  3. grubs
  4. grubs along
  5. grubs out
  6. grubs up
  7. grubstake
  8. grubstaked
  9. grubstaker
  10. grubstakers
  11. grubstakes

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