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rooting up

rooting up is the present participle and gerund of root up.

Meaning of root up

Verb

root up (third-person singular simple present roots up, present participle rooting up, simple past and past participle rooted up)

  1. To dig or pull up by the roots.

Questions about rooting up

What is rooting up the present participle and gerund of?
Rooting up is the present participle and gerund of root up.

Words near rooting up in the dictionary

  1. rooting interest
  2. rooting interests
  3. rooting out
  4. rooting reflex
  5. rooting tooting
  6. rooting up
  7. rooting-tooting
  8. rootings
  9. rootkit
  10. rootkits
  11. rootkitted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rooting up (page history and authors); root up (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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