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Synonyms
grub (grŭb)

[Middle English grubben, from Old English* grybban.]

verb: grubbed, grub·bing, grubs. 

transitive verb 

  1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.
  2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.
  3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.

intransitive verb 

  1. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.
    1. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.
    2. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.

noun 

  1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
  2. A drudge.
  3. Slang Food.

derivatives

grub́ber
noun