root out

(tr, adverb) to remove or eliminate completely we must root out inefficiency

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Verb	1.	root out - pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" deracinate, extirpate, uproot stub - pull up (weeds) by their roots move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
	2.	root out - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" extirpate, uproot, eradicate, exterminate destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

Translations

? root out

vt sep

(lit) = root up

(fig) (= remove) evil → mit der Wurzel ausreißen; (= find) → aufspüren, ausgraben (inf)

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adventitious root
Apium graveolens rapaceum
celeriac
celery root
chicory root
clover-root
cocoyam
coral root
Corallorhiza maculata
cube root
dasheen
early coral root
horseradish root
knob celery
mandrake
mandrake root
pale coral root
pleurisy root
prop root

None other than that I would not belie my troth, root out my strong love for him who marches with the legions of the cross in Holy Land, (for O, he is not dead

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

Martyrdom made a saint of the trivial and foolish Marie Antoinette, and her biographers still keep her fragrant with the odor of sanctity to this day, while unconsciously proving upon almost every page they write that the only calamitous instinct which her husband lacked, she supplied--the instinct to root out and get rid of an honest, able, and loyal official, wherever she found him.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context