Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To excel in rooting.
- To uproot; root out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To eradicate; to extirpate.
- transitive verb To root louder than; to applaud more noisily than.
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- verb transitive To
eradicate ; toextirpate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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One word more, and I'll take that beard of yours, and outroot it!
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Hitherto the most patient and intelligent of their religious instructors have failed to outroot this attachment to old forms.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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How should I outroot prepossessions so inveterate, -- the fruits of his earliest education, fostered and matured by the observation and experience of his whole life?
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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Her friends found it impossible to outroot this persuasion, or to overcome her resolution even by force.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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He might enjoin upon me the most laborious tasks, set the envy of my brother to watch me during the performance, make the most diligent search after my books, and destroy them without mercy, when they were found; but he could not outroot my darling propensity.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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Without doubt his experience was slender, and it seemed absurd to pronounce concerning that of which he had no direct knowledge; but so it was, he could not outroot from his mind the persuasion that to plough, to sow, and to reap, were employments most befitting a reasonable creature, and from which the truest pleasure and the least pollution would flow.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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To outroot the conviction of my own unworthiness, to persuade myself that I was regarded with the tenderness that Stevens had ascribed to her, that the discovery of my thoughts would not excite her anger and grief, I felt to be impossible.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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"No," answered I, with quickness; "I come to outroot a fatal but powerful illusion.
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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