root out of

root (someone or something) out of (something or some place)

To seek out, locate, and remove or eliminate someone or something from some place or thing. The exterminator wants to fumigate the entire house to root the termites out of there for good. The new police commissioner has vowed to root drug dealers out of the city by any means necessary.

root someone or something out of something

and root someone or something out

to seek and remove someone or something from something or some place; to seek to discover or bring something to light. The committee wanted to root all the lazy people out of the club. The manager rooted out all the deadwood.

词组	root out of
释义	root out of root (someone or something) out of (something or some place) To seek out, locate, and remove or eliminate someone or something from some place or thing. The exterminator wants to fumigate the entire house to root the termites out of there for good. The new police commissioner has vowed to root drug dealers out of the city by any means necessary. See also: of, out, root Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. root someone or something out of something and root someone or something out to seek and remove someone or something from something or some place; to seek to discover or bring something to light. The committee wanted to root all the lazy people out of the club. The manager rooted out all the deadwood. See also: of, out, root McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: root (someone or something) out of (something or some place) have a look for (someone or something) take a look for take a look for (someone or something) pull for pull for (someone or something) draw a bead on (someone), to crawling with (something) root (something) in (something) root in
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