to root
- verb
- /ruːt/
- To find inner peace, it is essential to root yourself in the present moment.
- deep-rooted
- deeply rooted
- rooted in a place
Examples
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We here at Harvard are rooted in tradition.
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CYPHER : Root yourself in this present moment now.
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Feel yourself rooted into the ground and into this moment.
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For what seemed like a long time, Belle stood rooted to the spot.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then you know that Blakely was well rooted in that company.
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They're rooted in a place.
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For several moments, Joshua stood rooted to the spot, staring at his reflection in the rough glass.
Fiction book (1990) -
Since he started taking the purple pills, he has stayed firmly rooted in the here-and-now.
Fiction book (1996) -
They must, like writers and painters and priests, have a sense of vocation, a deep-rooted desire to do good.
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Both uprisings fail, and yet the ideals of equality and self-determination proclaimed by Tone and Emmet are now deeply rooted in Ireland.
Synonyms
To live in a place, often for a long time
To start living a quiet, steady life by having a regular job or a family
To start living in one place for a long time and make it your home
To settle in one place and start living there
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
All the parts under the ground of a plant that hold it in soil and take water
- NSFW
A plant root people believe has magical or healing powers that people sometimes use as a drug
A plant root used to add a sweet, slightly bitter flavor to candies, drinks, and medicine
- Specialized
A group of nerve fibers at the back of the spinal cord that carry messages about feeling into it
- Specialized
A plant with a large part under the ground that people eat, like a potato or carrot
- Specialized
A fungus that attacks the roots of apple trees and makes them rot
- Specialized
A fungus that infects plant roots and causes brown rot in crops like peas or potatoes
- Specialized
Pain, weakness, and numbness in the neck and arm from a pinched nerve
- Specialized
A number that makes a square matrix have determinant zero when subtracted from its diagonal entries
A plant that lives for several years with divided leaves and hanging brown-purple and orange-pink flowers
- Archaic
A small plant with grasslike leaves whose bitter root was used to treat stomach pain
- Literature
A hairy plant from Europe and Asia with small yellow flowers and a root used in old medicines
- Specialized
A wildflower without leaves that gets food from fungi and grows from a hard mass of roots underground
A small European plant like cress with knotted white roots that grows in damp places
- Specialized
A North American wild plant with toothed leaves and strong smelling roots used to add taste or to treat illness
- US
A North American plant with strong tasting roots used to flavor food or as medicine
- Specialized
A small North American orchid with yellowish-brown flowers marked by dark veins, found from Arizona to the eastern United States
A tall plant with spikes of small white or purple flowers that lives for many years
- Specialized
A North American orchid with pale yellow or green stems and almost no leaves
- Specialized
A part of a plant that grows from a stem or leaf instead of the main root
- Archaic
A North American plant with small white flowers sometimes used in herbal medicine
- Specialized
A nerve branch at the front of the spinal cord that carries signals to muscles
- Specialized
Many thin roots growing abnormally near a plant's base, often caused by a disease called crown gall
- Specialized
A part of a plant that grows from the stem above ground and holds the plant in place
A North American wild plant with long clusters of small flowers once used as medicine
- Specialized
A small group of cells at the tip of a plant root that protects it as it grows through soil
- Specialized
A thin thread on a plant root that takes in water and nutrients from the soil
- Specialized
A mountain plant with thick pink-tipped leaves and yellow flowers used in herbal medicine
- Specialized
A plant with almost no leaves and pale yellow-green stems and flowers
- Specialized
A North American plant with strong spicy roots used for food and medicine
- Specialized
A group of nerves at the back of the spine that carries feeling from the body to the spinal cord
- Specialized
A North American plant with small white flowers whose roots people use in cough medicines
- US
A plant from eastern North America with small white flowers and roots used in medicine
A rough wild plant from eastern North America with large leaves and purple or dull red flowers
- Philippine
A climbing plant whose root has a poison used to stun fish and kill insects
- Specialized
A nerve that comes out of the spinal cord, joins another nerve, and carries messages to and from the body
A small plant with leafless stems that grows in North American forests and has white flowers with purple spots
A wildflower with almost no leaves, red stems, and pale pink flowers with brown stripes
- Specialized
The front branch of a spinal nerve that sends movement signals to muscles
- US
A plant that lives many years with a thick knotted yellow underground stem and large rounded leaves
How Settled
Surface Forms
Etymology
To root in a place means to become settled, from the picture of putting down roots like a plant and staying in one spot, so the word keeps the sense of becoming fixed or established.