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root out

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Verb

destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted root out corruption

pull up by or as if by the roots
- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

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Synonyms:
uproot eradicate extirpate exterminate deracinate

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