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Outroot

Outroot \Out*root"\, v. t.

  1. To eradicate; to extirpate.

  2. To root louder than; to applaud more noisily than.

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outroot

vb. (context transitive English) To eradicate; to extirpate.

Usage examples of "outroot".

To outroot the conviction of my own unworthiness, to persuade myself that I was regarded with the tenderness that Stevens had ascribed to her, that the discovery of my thoughts would not excite her anger and grief, I felt to be impossible.

Yet if once we efface the joys of the chase From the land, and outroot the Stud, GOOD-BYE TO THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE!

When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance.

Hope and a closer observation, outrooted, or at least, suspended this opinion.

So abundant was belief with them, that in their own climes, at this hour, idolatry has never thoroughly been outrooted: it changes but its objects of worship.