📖 Definitions of "Root out"
verb
- 1
To remove or abolish completely.
"They rooted out all vestiges of corruption."
- 2
To search for and discover.
"It took them hours to root out exactly where the water was coming in."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Root out"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| extirpateverb | (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate. |
| deracinateverb | To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. |
| uprootverb | (transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. |
| pull upverb | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up. |
| stamp outverb | (transitive) To get rid of totally; to eradicate. |
| rootnoun | The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. |
| eliminateverb | (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. |
| outrootverb | (transitive) To eradicate |
| eradicateverb | (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to. |
| aberuncateverb | (rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots. |
| do away withverb | (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate. |
| expungeverb | (transitive) To erase or strike out. |
| routnoun | (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing. |
| abolishverb | To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. |
| erradicateverb | Misspelling of eradicate. [(transitive) To pull up by the roots.] |
| stub outverb | (transitive) To extinguish (a cigar, cigarette) by crushing the tip. |
| abrogateverb | (transitive, law) To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal. |
| extirpverb | (transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something). |
| averruncateverb | (transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off. |
| unrootverb | (transitive) To tear up by the roots; to uproot. |
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