rooted (out)

verb

past tense of root (out)
1
as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services

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2
as in pulled
to draw out by force or with effort a dog rooting out a buried toy

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3
as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rooted (out)
  1. eradicated
  2. pulled
  3. found
  4. erased
  5. pried
  6. learned
  7. abolished
  8. extracted
Verb
  • How mouthwash affects your oral microbiome The oral microbiome is not a collection of pathogens to be eradicated.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The team has eradicated every invasive casuarina pine, the Australian import whose needles poison the native plants beneath it, along with invasive sea grapes that chew up the dunes.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of eradicated
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  • Our shopping editors have done the wandering for you and pulled the furniture deals worth acting on before midnight, with some marked down by more than 50%.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Nick Pivetta yielded two runs and five hits while pitching into the fifth for the Padres, and Dustin May got pulled abruptly with a 1-0 count on Bogaerts and a runner aboard in the fourth.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulled
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  • Fabscrap was founded in 2016 by New York City Department of Sanitation employee Jessica Schreiber.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • King Promise founded Rent Paid to fundraise for local community charities, including the Nungua Orphanage, which provides support to those under 16 in the area.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • Matthew Stafford led two fourth-quarter touchdown drives as the Rams erased a 10-point halftime deficit to beat Philadelphia 24-20, ending years of frustration against the Eagles.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The sequence that led to it was emblematic of a Broncos team that can play with anybody but has erased any margin for error in the first quarter of this season by making too many mistakes and generating too little offense.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of erased
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  • Someone pried open the rear cover to a truck and stole a set of golf clubs for a loss of about $3,000.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • But maybe pried his focus and joy and freedom away just a little bit going into the year.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of pried
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  • Investigators learned that Hellewell had offered to walk home with one of her male friends, who’d become overly intoxicated.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Church and law enforcement officials first learned of the allegations in 2018, and the Vatican in 2021 forced Saunders to retire at age 71, four years early.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of learned
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  • The Australian Consulate has taken an interest in her case, given the country abolished the death penalty in 1985.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Amendment, which abolished slavery and argued that loopholes in the amendment helped pave the way for the mass incarceration of Black Americans.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of abolished
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  • Allegations quickly emerged that DeepSeek had trained R1 in part on responses extracted from OpenAI’s models.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Sergio Cremisini, an expert in digital forensic evidence, who extracted information from Sierra’s phone in 2012, 2018 and 2026.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
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