ē-vellō vellī, volsus or vulsus, ere, to tear out, pluck out, extract: linguam Catoni: ferrum, Cs.: arbor, quā evolsā, L.: spinas agro, H.: Pollicibus fauces, O.: emblema, to tear away.

— Prov.: Caeno plantam, H.

— Fig., to root out, extract, eradicate, erase: consules ex memoriā: ex animo scrupulum: suspicionem.