grub
noun
the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
have grubbed
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present perfectof grub.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And how many scholars have grubbed over it!
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
But, for the sake of the argument, suppose you have grubbed along in a small way, living on crusts and water, till you are fifty, without doing any really good work.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
Any other man would have grubbed out all that withered stuff about the house and chopped back the bush behind it.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
