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grub sth up/out phrasal verb
phrasal verb [M]
Definition
to dig something out of the ground to get rid of it
She spent the morning in the garden, grubbing up weeds.
(Definition of grub sth up/out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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