to take root
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3.6
- phrasal verb
- /teɪk ruːt/
:
arraigarse
- The basics of democracy are taking root in this country after nearly three decades of tyranny, violence, and war.
- began to take root
- democracy takes root
- never took root
But these diseases start to take root early in our lives.
- But these diseases start to take root early in our lives.
- And I don't think we understand why that took root and stayed as powerful as it is.
- The second is the kind of destructive political mindset that's that's taken root in elements of the Republican Party.
- So that you know, positive view of womanhood, it's a positive view of children is, I think, taking root more and more.
- How to show the seeds of Black radicalism taking root?
- And we're starting to see that sort of thing take root across the country because of people like Sandra Yates.
- So again, this is the beginning of the end for owning a computer if people allow this to take root and spread.
- I had a trifecta of issues that made for like fertile soil for the imposter syndrome to take root.
- I think I think there comes a point where you're responsible for allowing serious nonsense to take root.
- That's when resentment can actually take root within a person, spurred by envy, spurred by the desire for revenge.
- And therefore, the men that have these weaker minds, they began to let that doubt take root and it begins to build this tree of negativity in their head.
- You don't let rejection or failure take root and make you even for a second think you are rejected or you're a failure and you just start building that resiliency.
- You know what we're saying, what we say can fall on fertile ground, right, For the seeds of, of what we communicate to take root.
- There's that, there's that fear, shame and guilt that that that automatically takes root in your soul and just just grief.
Examples
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The second is the kind of destructive political mindset that's that's taken root in elements of the Republican Party.
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By the 1970s, film studies began to take root in colleges and universities, and schools of "new stylistics" emerged.
Academic text (1998) -
So something can go wrong with reason, something can go wrong with will, and then it can take root inside of us.
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You provide security for the people so that that democracy can take root.
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I want to see a labor movement take root.
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We all believed that democracy had a chance to take root in the new Russia.
Academic text (2008) -
A quiet women's movement began to take root in Taiwan, and education for women has steadily advanced.
Academic text (1996) -
For this reason, doctrines of socialism and communism have never taken root in America the way they have in Europe.
Academic text (2002) -
That's when resentment can actually take root within a person, spurred by envy, spurred by the desire for revenge.
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The new policies took root quickly in the community, leading to significant changes.
Synonyms
958
2.2
Start to exist or slowly develop, as with an idea
65
2.6
To begin to exist or start to develop
33
3.8
To begin to control a situation or people's actions
18
3.9
A process in which an idea or habit starts to be accepted by many people
8
4.2
To start living in one place for a long time and make it your home
4
3.5
To begin to develop and become clear in shape or idea
To begin at a certain time or place
Antonyms
How Established
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to begin to develop or become firmly established' is directly derivable from combining 'take' with 'root' (where 'root' conveys putting down roots / becoming established). This plant-based metaphor is common across languages and follows ordinary compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Take root uses the picture of a plant's roots slowly growing and spreading in the soil. So when an idea or habit 'takes root' it 'begins to grow' and becomes firm in a place or in people's minds.