root out

• Verbo frasal que significa encontrar y eliminar o erradicar por completo algo, a menudo no deseado u oculto.

A phrasal verb meaning to find and remove or eliminate something completely, often something undesirable or hidden.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

1. Eliminate completelyformal

   To remove or destroy something completely, especially something undesirable.

   erradicar por completo

   • The government is trying to root out corruption in the system.
   • We must root out all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
   • The new policy aims to root out inefficiency.

   Sinónimoseliminateeradicateexterminateextirpateobliteratestamp outuprootwipe out

   Antónimosestablishintroduceplant

2. Find and removeinformal

   To search for and find something, often to get rid of it.

   erradicar

   • The detective rooted out the source of the leak.
   • She rooted out the old files from the cabinet.
   • They rooted out the cause of the technical problem.

   Sinónimosdig outeliminateeradicateextirpateferret outuncoveruprootweed out

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