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verb

1. To break, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example) with or as if with a tool: delve, dig, excavate, scoop, shovel, spade. See enter/exit.
2. To do tedious, laborious, and sometimes menial work: drudge, plod, slave, slog. Informal grind. See work/play.

noun

1. One who works or toils tirelessly: drudge, fag, plodder, slave. Informal grind, workhorse. See work/play.
2. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang chow, eats. See ingestion.

v

Definition: dig, uncover
Antonyms: cover, hide

v

Definition: work very hard
Antonyms: idle, laze, tinker

To clear a site by removing roots, stumps, and the like.

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The larva of many kinds of beetles, including the Japanese beetle. Many grubs live underground and eat plant roots.

noun
noun

Food. (1659 —) .
E. Taylor We're here, madam. Grub up! (1957).

[Perh. from the notion of grubs (larvae) as birds' food.]

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Maggot-like or caterpillar-like insect larva; said of beetles and flies, most properly of beetles.

• black g. — metacercariae of digenetic flukes in the skin and/or musculature of finfish.
• cattle g. — see hypoderma.
• head g. — see oestrus ovis.
• torsalo g. — dermatobia hominis.
• white g. — metacercariae of digenetic flukes in the skin and/or musculature of finfish.
• yellow g. — metacercariae of digenetic flukes in skin and/or musculature of finfish.

For a list of words related to grub, see:

• Insects and arachnids
• Food in General - grub: Slang. food, usu. simple and basic

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - larve, orm, maddike, ulækker fyr, slider, bogorm, ædelse
v. tr. - grave, rydde, æde, forsyne med proviant
v. intr. - rode, slide, snadre

idioms:

• grub out    grave frem
• grub up    grave op

Nederlands (Dutch)
made, eten, zwoeger, viespeuk, wroeten, scharrelen, zwoegen

Français (French)
n. - larve, (Zool) larve, ver (dans un fruit), bouffe, coup de pied (au rugby)
v. tr. - (US) soutirer (qch) à qn
v. intr. - (US) soutirer (qch) à qn

idioms:

• grub out    fouiner pour trouver qch
• grub up    déraciner, déterrer

Deutsch (German)
v. - wühlen, buddeln, ausgraben, sich schinden
n. - Made, Larve, Raupe, Essen, Malocher

idioms:

• grub out    ausroden, ausgraben, (fig) zutage fördern
• grub up    ausroden, ausgraben

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - σκαλίζω, ψαχουλεύω, (καθομ.) δουλεύω σκληρά
n. - (εντομ.) προνύμφη κολεόπτερου, σκουλήκι, κάμπια, βρομόπαιδο, φαγητό, μάσα

idioms:

• grub out    σκαλίζω για (πληροφορίες)
• grub up    ξεριζώνω

Italiano (Italian)
scavare, sgobbare, mangime, larva, sgobbone

idioms:

• grub up/out    sradicare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - limpar o solo removendo raízes e tocos, cavar, trabalhar como um mouro
n. - escravo (m) do trabalho (gír.), lagarta (f) (Entom.), verme (m) (Entom.), comida (f) (gír)

idioms:

• grub up/out    arrancar algo do solo

Русский (Russian)
рыться, корчевать землю, много работать, личинка, писака, грязнуля

idioms:

• grub up/out    выкапывать (из земли), выискивать

Español (Spanish)
n. - comida, larva, empollón, gusano, persona aburrida o desprolija, raíces o troncos que quedan luego de limpiar un terreno
v. tr. - escarbar, hurgar, hocicar, hozar, desyerbar o desmalezar (un terreno), cavar
v. intr. - escarbar, hurgar, cavar

idioms:

• grub out    arrancar, extirpar, desenterrar, desarraigar, descubrir (datos)
• grub up    arrancar, extirpar, desenterrar, desarraigar, descubrir (datos)

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - gräva, slita, käka, snylta sig till
n. - larv (zool.), käk, (smuts)gris, murvel (åld.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
幼虫, 食物, 蛆, 苦干的人, 挖出, 搜寻出, 根除, 挖地, 搜寻, 翻掘, 苦干

idioms:

• grub out    搜寻出, 查找出, 向...供应食物, 乞讨
• grub up    掘出

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 幼蟲, 食物, 蛆, 苦幹的人
v. tr. - 挖出, 搜尋出, 根除
v. intr. - 挖地, 搜尋, 翻掘, 苦幹

idioms:

• grub out    搜尋出, 查找出, 向...供應食物, 乞討
• grub up    掘出

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 유충, 구더기, 지저분한 아이, 그루터기, 음식
v. tr. - 경작하다, 발췌하다, 음식을 주다
v. intr. - 개간하다

idioms:

• grub out    발췌하다
• grub up    발췌하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 掘り起こす, 掘り返す, 地面を掘る, 掘り出す
n. - 幼虫, 地虫, 食物

idioms:

• grub up/out    根扱ぎにする, 掘り出す, 暴く

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) ينبش الارض, ينقب عن, يكدح (الاسم) يرقانه دوديه, طعام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮זחל, דרן, מזון‬
v. tr. - ‮עישב, ניכש, עדר, חפר‬
v. intr. - ‮עמל, יגע‬

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