VERB
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pull up by or as if by the roots
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden -
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
root out corruption
How To Use root out In A Sentence
- Sir Robert Mark's campaign to root out corruption in the Metropolitan Police is well known.
- For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- I will try and root out some good players for the basketball team.
- He charged that officers in construction were expected to enforce registration regulations to root out dubious contractors.
- The principal promised to root out the troublemakers.
- It is impossible to root out this disease in a few years.
- The Prime Minister pledged to do all that was necessary to root out the criminal minority behind the campaign of terror.
- The deep division within the provinces of the former Empire meant than no-one had sufficient forces to root out the Beastmen.
- For they strive by a kind of toilsome exercise of the body itself to root out those lusts that are hurtful to the body, that is, those habits and affections of the soul that lead to the enjoyment of unworthy objects. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
- But he made no promise to do something special to root out the practice of female foeticide.
