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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
root out
1. pull up by or as if by the roots (Freq. 1)
- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
• Syn:
uproot, extirpate, deracinate
• Derivationally related forms:
deracination (for: deracinate), extirpation (for: extirpate)
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
stub
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption
• Syn:
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate
• Derivationally related forms:
extirpation (for: extirpate), eradication (for: eradicate), eradicator (for: eradicate), uprooter (for: uproot)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
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