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- verb To
remove orabolish completely. - verb To
search for anddiscover .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- verb pull up by or as if by the roots
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vanishedone commented on the word root out
From a philosopher's dream: 'I was standing in a hall full of people who were listening to a speaker inveighing against synthetic a priori propositions. The atmosphere owed a lot to speeches by Hitler on the Jews and Joseph McCarthy on Communists: the speaker was standing behind one of those old-style microphones, shouting: We must root out synthetic a priori propositions! We must eliminate them! The crowd was getting increasingly worked up. I was standing by the wall, watching, feeling deeply uneasy.'
January 12, 2009