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Thesaurusroot 1noun1. The most central and material part:core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance.Law: gravamen.2. A fundamental principle or underlying concept:base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, fundamental, rudiment (often used in plural).3. A point of origination:beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, rootstock, source, spring, well.4. A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate:bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, quick.5. The main part of a word to which affixes are attached:base, stem, theme.verb1. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible:embed, entrench, fasten, fix, infix, ingrain, lodge.2. To provide a basis for:base, build, establish, found, ground, predicate, rest, underpin.3. To destroy all traces of.Out or up:abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to.
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root (something) in (something)To place something, especially a plant, into something else in order for it to grow roots. I couldn't root any of the vegetables in my back yard because the soil was fool of rocks. You should root the flowers in pots before attempting to plant them in the ground.See also: rootroot something in somethingto start a plant growing roots in something. I tried to root the plants in sand, but they died. You have to root this kind of tree in very rich soil.See also: rootroot inv.1. To cause something, as a plant, to grow roots in something: The gardener rooted the plant in good soil.2. To have something as a primary source or origin. Used in the passive: Homelessness is very often rooted in poverty. The word "tantalize" is rooted in Greek mythology.See also: root |