root out

• Verbo frasal que significa encontrar e eliminar ou erradicar completamente algo, geralmente algo indesejado ou oculto.

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

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Eliminate completelyformal

   To remove or destroy something completely, especially something undesirable.

   Erradicar

   • 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.

   Sinônimoseliminateeradicateexterminateextirpateobliteratestamp outuprootwipe out

   Antônimosestablishintroduceplant

2. Find and removeinformal

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

   Extirpar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosdig outeliminateeradicateextirpateferret outuncoveruprootweed out

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