root out

root out

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

Thesaurus

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, uprootstub - pull up (weeds) by their rootsmove, 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, exterminatedestroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

root ¹

noun1. The most central and material part:core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance.Law: gravamen.2. A fundamental principle or underlying concept:base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, fundamental, rudiment (often used in plural).3. A point of origination:beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, rootstock, source, spring, well.4. A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate:bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, quick.5. The main part of a word to which affixes are attached:base, stem, theme.verb1. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible:embed, entrench, fasten, fix, infix, ingrain, lodge.2. To provide a basis for:base, build, establish, found, ground, predicate, rest, underpin.3. To destroy all traces of.Out or up:abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to.

Translations

根除连根拔出

root¹

(ruːt) noun1. the part of a plant that grows under the ground and draws food and water from the soil. Trees often have deep roots; Carrots and turnips are edible roots. 植物根部 根茎2. the base of something growing in the body. the roots of one's hair/teeth. 人體部位的根部(髮根、牙根) 牙根、（发）根 3. cause; origin. Love of money is the root of all evil; We must get at the root of the trouble. 根源 根源4. (in plural) family origins. Our roots are in Scotland. 祖先 祖先 verb to (make something) grow roots. These plants aren't rooting very well; He rooted the plants in compost. (使)生根 使...生根root beer a kind of non-alcoholic drink made from the roots of certain plants. 麥根沙士 植物根茎制成的一种啤酒根汁汽水（用植物的根制成，不含酒精） root crop plants with roots that are grown for food. The farm has three fields of root crops. 根莖作物 供食用的块根作物root out1. to pull up or tear out by the roots. The gardener began to root out the weeds. 連根拔起 连根拔出2. to get rid of completely. We must do our best to root out poverty. 根除 根除take root to grow firmly; to become established. The plants soon took root. 紮根 生根