root out

• Verbe à particule signifiant trouver et éliminer complètement quelque chose, souvent indésirable ou caché, ou l'extirper à la racine.

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

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Eliminate completelyformal

   To remove or destroy something completely, especially something undesirable.

   éradiquer

   • 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.

   Synonymeseliminateeradicateexterminateextirpateobliteratestamp outuprootwipe out

   Antonymesestablishintroduceplant

2. Find and removeinformal

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

   Débusquer et éliminer

   • 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.

   Synonymesdig outeliminateeradicateextirpateferret outuncoveruprootweed out

Verbe de baseroot