To root up, pull up by the roots (trees, stumps, weeds, etc.); to extirpate by digging or grubbing… simply.

To root up, pull up by the roots (trees, stumps, weeds, etc.); to extirpate by digging or grubbing… with up (very frequent); rarely out.

transitive. To root up (plants); = extirpate, v. 2.

transitive. To take up or remove (a plant) from the ground; to uproot.

transitive. To take up by the roots; to root out, uproot (a plant). Chiefly in figurative contexts, often in association with plant, n.1 or plant, v.…

transitive. To dig up by the roots; to grub up (roots). Chiefly with up.

To dig up by the roots, to root up, uproot: esp. with up, less commonly out. Also transferred and figurative.

to stump up. transitive. To dig up by the roots.

(See quotations.)

To pull or pluck up by the roots; to root up, destroy, or remove root and branch (a tree, plant).

To stub; to dig up by the roots. Originally Caribbean.