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grub up

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Verb1.grub up - dig up; "grub up roots and tree stumps"
grub out
dig up, excavate, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
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? grub up
vt sep weeds → jäten; potatoes, bush etc → ausgraben; soil → wühlen in (+dat); (bird) worms → aus dem Boden ziehen; (fig) information, people → auftreiben, zusammensammeln


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But like the snout of the boar shall my word grub up the basis of your souls; a ploughshare will I be called by you.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
You need not set detectives to grub up my tragedy; it is a common enough weed in this world.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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