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Antonyms for take root

Grammar : Verb
Spell : root, roo t
Phonetic Transcription : rut, rʊt


Definition of take root

Origin :
  • "underground part of a plant," late Old English rot, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rot "root," figuratively "cause, origin," from Proto-Germanic *wrot (cf. Old English wyrt "root, herb, plant," Old High German wurz, German Wurz "a plant," Gothic waurts "a root," with characteristic Scandinavian loss of -w- before -r-), from PIE *wrad- (see radish (n.), and cf. wort). The usual Old English words for "root" were wyrttruma and wyrtwala.
  • Figurative use is from c.1200. Of teeth, hair, etc., from early 13c. Mathematical sense is from 1550s. Philological sense from 1520s. Slang meaning "penis" is recorded from 1846. In U.S. black use, "a spell effected by magical properties of roots," 1935. To take root is from 1530s. Root beer, made from the extracts of various roots, first recorded 1841, American English; root doctor is from 1821. Root cap is from 1875.
  • As in settle : verb make one's home
  • As in sprout : verb develop
Example sentences :
  • She had flung a new idea broadcast, and it was beginning to take root.
  • Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • The circumstances of that meeting had caused it to take root and grow.
  • Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • Any printed word is like seed; it is liable to take root you know not where.
  • Extract from : « Paul and the Printing Press » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • Jealousy was an alien weed, which could not take root in the benign soil of her nature.
  • Extract from : « Virginia » by Ellen Glasgow
  • Take out of pot and take root off of it before it gets cold.
  • Extract from : « Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book » by Margaret Brown
  • Who, then, prepared the soil for the seeds of this idiocy to take root?
  • Extract from : « A Century of Science and Other Essays » by John Fiske
  • They are left for some days to take root, when the grounds are again irrigated.
  • Extract from : « A Visit to the Philippine Islands » by John Bowring
  • So they have to fight for an opening in which they can take root and grow up.
  • Extract from : « Studies in the History and Method of Science » by Various
  • The depth of earth was so great, that in it the largest trees might take root.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Curiosities » by I. Platts
  • It is essential that this idea should sink into our life and take root therein.
  • Extract from : « The Treasure of the Humble » by Maurice Maeterlinck

Synonyms for take root

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