outroot, v.
(aʊtˈruːt)
[f. out adv. + root: prob. after L. ērādīcāre; cf. F. déraciner.]
trans. To pluck out or up by the root, root out, eradicate, exterminate.
| 1558 J. Hales in Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1918/2 Also to your vttermost power endeuour to outroote them. 1624 Essex's Ghost in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 514 T' out-root the plant, which Christ himself hath sown. 1834 Lytton Pompeii iii. v, Idolatry has never thoroughly been outrooted. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. xii. (1872) IX. 226 How..hinder Ferdinand's besieging them, and quite outrooting us there? |
So outˈrooting vbl. n., a rooting out.
| 1562 Winȝet Cert. Tractates i. Wks. 1888 I. 11 For the dountramping of ydolatrie, to the outruiting of the quhilk we beseik thy princelie Maiestie. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, Finding indeed, except the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), little to desiderate therein. |