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• grub out — verb dig up grub up roots and tree stumps • Syn: ↑grub up • Hypernyms: ↑excavate, ↑dig up, ↑turn up • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …   Useful english dictionary

• grub out — see grub up …   English dictionary

• grub — [[t]grʌ̱b[/t]] grubs, grubbing, grubbed 1) N COUNT A grub is a young insect which has just come out of an egg and looks like a short fat worm. 2) N UNCOUNT Grub is food. [INFORMAL] Get yourself some grub and come and sit down. Syn: nosh 3) VERB… …   English dictionary

• grub up — verb dig up grub up roots and tree stumps • Syn: ↑grub out • Hypernyms: ↑excavate, ↑dig up, ↑turn up • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …   Useful english dictionary

• grub up — or grub out PHRASAL VERB If you grub up trees or plants, or grub them out, you dig them out of the ground, usually because they are no longer wanted. [V P n] Farmers are grubbing up ancient varieties of crops... [V P …   English dictionary

• grub — I. /grʌb / (say grub) noun 1. the bulky larva of certain insects, especially of scarabaeid and other beetles. 2. Colloquial food. 3. Colloquial a. a person, especially a child, covered with dirt: you little grub! b. a person with poor personal… …  

• Grub — Grub, v. t. 1. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge. [1913 Webster] They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin. Hare. [1913 Webster] 2. To supply with food. [Slang]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• grub — [grub] vi. grubbed, grubbing [ME grubben, to dig, prob. < OE * grybban (akin to OHG grubilōn, to bore into): for IE base see GRAVE2] 1. to dig in the ground 2. to work hard, esp. at something menial or tedious; drudge 3. to search about;… …   English World dictionary

• grub something out — ˌgrub sthˈup/ˈout derived to dig sth out of the ground • The trees were grubbed up to make way for a new road. Main entry: ↑grubderived …   Useful english dictionary

• grub something up — ˌgrub sthˈup/ˈout derived to dig sth out of the ground • The trees were grubbed up to make way for a new road. Main entry: ↑grubderived …   Useful english dictionary

• Grub Street — Until the early 1800s, Grub Street was the name of a street in London s impoverished Moorfields district. In the 1700s and 1800s, the street was famous for its concentration of mediocre, impoverished hack writers , aspiring poets, and low end… …   Wikipedia