root out

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

pull up by the roots: P. ἐκπρεμνίζειν, V. ἐκθαμνίζειν.

Met., P. and V. ἀναιρέω, ἀναιρεῖν, καθαιρεῖν, V. ἐκτρίβειν, ἐκθαμνίζειν; see destroy.

having all his house utterly rooted out: V. γένους ἅπαντος ῥίζαν ἐξημημένος (ἐξαμᾶν) (Sophocles, Ajax 1178).