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Webster 1913 Edition


Undergrub

Unˊder-grub′

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Verb.
T.
To undermine.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Definition 2024


undergrub

undergrub

English

Verb

undergrub (third-person singular simple present undergrubs, present participle undergrubbing, simple past and past participle undergrubbed)

  1. (Britain, dialect) To undermine.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
    Sexton beetles, corpse-eating buriers who delve and undergrub him and howk out the trench his sausagy form settles into. Galway Kinnell.