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root out
verb
- tr, adverb to remove or eliminate completely
we must root out inefficiency
Idioms and Phrases
Search for, seek to discover, as in He was trying to root out the reason for her long absence . This idiom alludes to the way hogs dig by using their snouts. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Make sure the beds are at least 1 to 2 feet deep, to keep the roots out of contaminated soil.
Republican leaders have assured their wobbling colleagues that they intend to root out waste, fraud and abuse only, not cut Medicaid benefits.
After years of security theater, all too many Americans seem ready to accept Trump鈥檚 pledge to root out the vermin.
鈥淚 commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency. I鈥檓 grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents.鈥
That鈥檚 the kind of wasted expenditure Musk claims to be rooting out, but it exists largely because of the immense political power of the military-industrial complex.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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