Definition for Grub:

• The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; - called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

Synonyms for Grub:

• n.

  •
  • maggot,
  • dish,
  • nutrition,
  • Groceries,
  • nourishment.
  •
  • enter,
  • nymph,
  • cocoon,
  • delve.
  •
  • go through,
  • hunt down,
  • scavenge,
  • grind,
  • search out,
  • work,
  • look out for,
  • probe,
  • seek out,
  • pick through,
  • drudge.
  •animal (noun)
  • grub.
  •bread (noun)
  • staff of life,
  • nutriment,
  • shingles,
  • provisions,
  • bed and board,
  • Necessities,
  • shingle,
  • subsistence.
  •bum (noun)
  • bum.
  •cadge (noun)
  • cadge.
  •chow (noun)
  • chow.
  •chuck (noun)
  • chuck.
  •cuisine (noun)
  • dishes,
  • menu.
  •eats (noun)
  • eatables,
  • meals,
  • snacks,
  • tidbits.
  •feed (noun)
  • Corns,
  • barley,
  • silage,
  • corn,
  • silages,
  • barleys,
  • pasturage,
  • animal food.
  •grub (noun)
  • centipede,
  • viands,
  • feed,
  • rations,
  • comestibles,
  • nosh,
  • entozoon,
  • edibles,
  • sustenance,
  • eats,
  • caterpillar,
  • sponge,
  • mooch.
  •pap (noun)
  • Esculent.
  •wonk (noun)
  • Poindexter,
  • dweeb,
  • swotter,
  • dweebs,
  • greasy grind.

• v.

  •comb (verb)
  • scrutinize,
  • examine,
  • screen,
  • inspect,
  • beat the bushes,
  • sweep,
  • investigate,
  • sift.
  •dig (verb)
  • mine,
  • bore,
  • drive,
  • concave,
  • drill,
  • discover,
  • deepen,
  • penetrate,
  • exhume,
  • pierce,
  • harvest,
  • depress,
  • pit,
  • bulldoze,
  • undermine,
  • till,
  • dredge,
  • break up,
  • sap,
  • uncover,
  • go into,
  • rout,
  • cat,
  • produce,
  • channel,
  • quarry,
  • gouge,
  • tunnel.
  •eat (verb)
  • eat,
  • bite,
  • dine,
  • consume,
  • sup,
  • ingest,
  • devour,
  • gulp.
  •excavate (verb)
  • empty,
  • cut,
  • scrape,
  • trench,
  • hollow.
  •forage (verb)
  • casts about,
  • fine tooth combing,
  • fine-tooth-combed,
  • casting about,
  • fine tooth comb,
  • fine-tooth-combs,
  • fine-tooth-combing,
  • fine tooth combed,
  • fine tooth combs.
  •grub (verb)
  • moil,
  • beat,
  • labor,
  • burrow,
  • hunt,
  • clean,
  • pull up,
  • sweat,
  • break,
  • prepare,
  • unearth,
  • uproot,
  • clear,
  • poke.
  •rake (verb)
  • enfilades,
  • re move,
  • fine combed,
  • re-moves,
  • re-move,
  • re moving,
  • fine combs,
  • fine combing,
  • fine-combed,
  • cleaning up,
  • fine-combing,
  • re-moving,
  • fine comb,
  • re moved,
  • fine-combs.
  •root (verb)
  • grubbing up,
  • in graining,
  • in-grain,
  • grubbed up,
  • grubs up,
  • in-graining,
  • in-grained,
  • in grain,
  • in-grains.
  •rummage (verb)
  • dis-arranges,
  • dis arrange,
  • digging out,
  • dis arranges,
  • dis-organizing,
  • dug out,
  • dis-organized,
  • dis array,
  • dis-arrayed,
  • dis arrayed,
  • dis organized,
  • dis-arranged,
  • dis orders,
  • dis-arrays,
  • dis arranged,
  • dis arranging,
  • shaking down,
  • dis-arranging,
  • dis organizes,
  • dis-order,
  • dis-arraying,
  • dis arrays,
  • dis ordering,
  • dis organizing,
  • dis ordered,
  • dis-organizes,
  • shakes down,
  • dis arraying,
  • digs out,
  • dis-arrange,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis order,
  • dis-array,
  • shook down,
  • dis-ordered,
  • dis-organize,
  • dis organize,
  • dis-ordering,
  • digged out.
  •scoop (verb)
  • sweeping away,
  • clears away,
  • sweeps up,
  • sweeping up,
  • swept up,
  • sweeps away.
  •scour (verb)
  • looked up and down,
  • go over with a fine tooth comb,
  • going over with a finetooth comb,
  • go over with fine-tooth comb,
  • in-quiring,
  • went over with fine tooth comb,
  • went over with a finetooth comb,
  • looking up and down,
  • in-quires,
  • goes over with a fine tooth comb,
  • looks up and down,
  • goes over with fine-tooth comb,
  • going over with fine tooth comb,
  • looking and down,
  • goes over with a finetooth comb,
  • in quired,
  • in quires,
  • goes over with fine tooth comb,
  • going over with fine-tooth comb,
  • in quire,
  • looks and down,
  • looked and down,
  • going over with finetooth comb,
  • in-quired,
  • look and down,
  • goes over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • looks down,
  • go over with fine tooth comb,
  • in quiring,
  • went over with finetooth comb,
  • looked down,
  • looks up down,
  • in-quire,
  • looked up down,
  • went over with fine-tooth comb,
  • go over with finetooth comb,
  • goes over with finetooth comb,
  • going over with a fine tooth comb,
  • looking up down,
  • look up down,
  • go over with a finetooth comb,
  • went over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • went over with a fine tooth comb,
  • going over with a fine-tooth comb.
  •search (verb)
  • poked into,
  • pokes into,
  • goes quest of,
  • go quest of,
  • chased after,
  • smelt around,
  • rifled through,
  • chasing after,
  • pro spects,
  • going quest of,
  • hunted for,
  • chases after,
  • beating about,
  • hunts for,
  • looks over,
  • pro spect,
  • poked in to,
  • gunning for,
  • poking in to,
  • goes in quest of,
  • poking into,
  • pokes in to,
  • smelled around,
  • beats about,
  • guns for,
  • poke in to,
  • went quest of,
  • smells around,
  • rifling through,
  • hunting for,
  • pro-spects,
  • gunned for,
  • went in quest of,
  • rifles through,
  • going in quest of,
  • smelling around.
  •slave (verb)
  • work fingers bone,
  • are servile,
  • wast servile,
  • wrought fingers to bone,
  • was servile,
  • working fingers to bone,
  • wrought fingers bone,
  • being servile,
  • worked fingers bone,
  • skivvied,
  • art servile,
  • is servile,
  • works fingers to bone,
  • working fingers bone,
  • am servile,
  • wert servile,
  • worked fingers to bone,
  • were servile,
  • works fingers bone.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chrysalis,
  • nit,
  • plodder,
  • fag,
  • worm,
  • pupa,
  • victual,
  • pap,
  • provender,
  • workhorse,
  • aliment.
  •
  • spade,
  • pabulum,
  • nurture.
  •
  • plod,
  • slog,
  • diet,
  • mess.
  •
  • provision.
  •rake
  • enfilade,
  • weeded,
  • Enfiladed,
  • weed,
  • fine-comb,
  • Weeding,
  • cleaned up,
  • weeds,
  • Enfilading,
  • cleans up,
  • clean up.
  •scoop
  • ladle,
  • sweep up,
  • Bailing,
  • sweep away,
  • swept away,
  • Ladling,
  • cleared away,
  • Bailed,
  • Ladled,
  • clearing away,
  • clear away.
  •search
  • hunt for,
  • beat about,
  • gun for,
  • poke into,
  • searches,
  • quested,
  • smell around,
  • looked over,
  • chase after,
  • look over,
  • looking over,
  • rifle through,
  • questing,
  • go in quest of.

Paraphrases for Grub:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    chow.

Antonyms for Grub:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    drone, slug, lazybones, sluggard, toxin, poison, idler, venom, slouch, goldbrick, bane, shirker, loafer.

Grub Sentence Examples:

• What kind of grub?

• It only proves how we mis - judge them by considering a farmer an ignorant individual who does nothing but grub on his farm.

Homophones for Grub:

• grubb.

Hypernym for Grub:

• n.

  • animal
    maggot, leatherjacket.

Hyponym for Grub:

• n.

  • animal
    larva.

• v.

  • contact
    seek, search, look for.