grub up

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grub up

verb grubs up · grubbing up · grubbed up

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?
Similar: grub out

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@misc{grub_up_2026,
  title = {grub up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grub%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}