"take root" meaning in English

See take root in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: takes root [present, singular, third-person], taking root [participle, present], took root [past], taken root [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> root}} take root (third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root)
  1. (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil. Tags: intransitive, literally Translations (to grow roots into soil): arrelar (Catalan), 生根 (shēnggēn) (Chinese Mandarin), juurtua (Finnish), prendre racine (French), raciner (French), enraizar (Galician), einwurzeln (German), ριζοβολώ (rizovoló) (Greek), ριζώνω (rizóno) (Greek), gyökeret ver/ereszt/hajt (Hungarian), megered (Hungarian), meggyökerezik (Hungarian), meggyökeresedik (Hungarian), 根付く (nezuku) (alt: ねづく) (Japanese), rādīcō (Latin), zakorzeniać się [imperfective] (Polish), zakorzenić się (Polish), enraizar (Portuguese), deitar raízes (Portuguese), fixar raízes (Portuguese), pegar (Portuguese), înrădăcina (Romanian), принима́ться (prinimátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), приня́ться (prinjátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), пуска́ть ко́рни (puskátʹ kórni) [imperfective] (Russian), пусти́ть ко́рни (pustítʹ kórni) [perfective] (Russian), radicar (Spanish), echar raíces (Spanish), arraigar (Spanish), slå rot (Swedish), mọc rễ (Vietnamese), vulikön (Volapük)
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  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold. Tags: figuratively, intransitive Translations (to become established, to take hold): arrelar (Catalan), 生根 (shēnggēn) (Chinese Mandarin), vakiintua (Finnish), s’enraciner (French), arraigar (Galician), Wurzeln schlagen (German), ριζοβολώ (rizovoló) (Greek), gyökeret ver (Hungarian), meggyökerezik (Hungarian), meggyökeresedik (Hungarian), megszilárdul (Hungarian), rögzül (Hungarian), rögződik (Hungarian), 根付く (nezuku) (alt: ねづく) (Japanese), rarau (Maori), zakorzeniać się [imperfective] (Polish), zakorzenić się [perfective] (Polish), criar raízes (Portuguese), radicar [pronominal] (Portuguese), укореня́ться (ukorenjátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), укорени́ться (ukorenítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), укорије́нити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ukorijéniti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), radicar (Spanish), slå rot (Swedish)
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Related terms: rooting hormone

Inflected forms

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          "text": "You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.",
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          "roman": "rizovoló",
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          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
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          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "rögzül"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "rögződik"
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          "alt": "ねづく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nezuku",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "根付く"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "rarau"
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          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
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          "word": "zakorzeniać się"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zakorzenić się"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "criar raízes"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "radicar"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ukorenjátʹsja",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "укореня́ться"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ukorenítʹsja",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "укорени́ться"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "укорије́нити"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "ukorijéniti"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "radicar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
          "word": "slå rot"
        }
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  "word": "take root"
}
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          "ref": "1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "arrelar"
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "juurtua"
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "prendre racine"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "raciner"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "enraizar"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "einwurzeln"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "rizovoló",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "ριζοβολώ"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "gyökeret ver/ereszt/hajt"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "megered"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "meggyökerezik"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "meggyökeresedik"
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "根付く"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "rādīcō"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zakorzeniać się"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "zakorzenić się"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "enraizar"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "deitar raízes"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "fixar raízes"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "pegar"
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "înrădăcina"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prinimátʹsja",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "принима́ться"
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "приня́ться"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "puskátʹ kórni",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "пуска́ть ко́рни"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pustítʹ kórni",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
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      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "radicar"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "echar raíces"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "arraigar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "slå rot"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "mọc rễ"
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      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "to grow roots into soil",
      "word": "vulikön"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "arrelar"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēnggēn",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "生根"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "vakiintua"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "s’enraciner"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "arraigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "Wurzeln schlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "rizovoló",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "ριζοβολώ"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "gyökeret ver"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "meggyökerezik"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "meggyökeresedik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "megszilárdul"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "rögzül"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "rögződik"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ねづく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nezuku",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "根付く"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "rarau"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zakorzeniać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zakorzenić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "criar raízes"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "pronominal"
      ],
      "word": "radicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ukorenjátʹsja",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "укореня́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ukorenítʹsja",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "укорени́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "укорије́нити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ukorijéniti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "radicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to become established, to take hold",
      "word": "slå rot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take root"
}

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