grub
noun
the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
grubbed
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past participleof grub.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof grub.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
grubnounthe thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
Example Sentences
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Prized ancient vineyards across France are being grubbed up.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Throughout Europe, in California and Chile, Australia and South Africa, old vineyards have been grubbed up and replaced, either with newer vineyards that were more productive or with grapes deemed more in demand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
This summer, the Matinicus Rock team grubbed a 32-year-old puffin — one of the original birds in Project Puffin, brought down from Newfoundland as a chick and raised on Seal Island.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2022
Analysts expect a harvest of 11m-12m tonnes, one of the smallest in a generation, after many farmers grubbed up their failing, waterlogged crops and replanted fields with barley.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013
Now and then they found a stump with the marks of the axe on it, but mostly these had been carefully covered with brambles or altogether grubbed up.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
