root and branch

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root and branch (formal)

if something is changed or removed root and branch, it is changed or removed completely because it is bad Racism must be eliminated, root and branch. (formal)

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I've given him up for my part - fairly disowned him - cast him off, root and branch. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society. The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context			roll up in roll up sleeves roll with it roll with the punches rolled into one roller rolling in rolling in the aisles rolling stone gathers no moss rome Rome was not built in a day Rome wasn't built in a day romp romp around romp on romp through roof roof over room room and board room to swing a cat room together room with roost root root and branch root around root for root in root of the problem root out root out of root up rooted in rooted to rooted to the spot rope rope in rope into rope into doing rope off rope or an animal up rope together ropes rose rose by any other name would smell as sweet rose-coloured glasses rose-tinted glasses rosy rot rot away			root root root root root root root Root (botany) Root (botany) Root (botany) Root (botany) Root (chord) Root (disambiguation) Root (disambiguation) Root (linguistics) Root (mathematics) Root (mathematics) Root (mathematics) Root (Unix) Root abcess root about or around Root abscess Root access Root Activist Network of Trainers root addressable area root amputation root amputation root amputation root amputation Root Anchor Point root and branch Root and tuber vegetables root angulation root angulation root angulation root angulation root anomaly root anomaly root anomaly root anomaly root anomaly root apex root apex root apex root apex Root Aphids Root Apical Meristem Root Apical Meristem Root Apical Meristem root around root axis line root axis line root axis line root axis line Root barnacle root beer root beer root beer float Root beer floats Root Beer National Socialism Root Beer Tapper

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