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uppluck en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- + pluck.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
   • And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie. c. 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death:
   • For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...] 1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt:
   • The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck. 1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2:
   • The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...] 1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales:

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