Rooted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Root \Root\ (r[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Rooting}.]
     1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take
        root and begin to grow.
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              In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. --Mortimer.
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     2. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
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              If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to
              cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to
              root and fasten by concealment.       --Bp. Fell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rooted \Root"ed\, a.
     Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A
     rooted sorrow." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Root"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Root"ed*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rooted
       adj : absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted
             in astonishment" [syn: {frozen(p)}, {rooted(p)}, {stock-still}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "rooted":
     acknowledged, admitted, basic, chronic, confirmed, conventional,
     customary, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded,
     deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled,
     dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved,
     entrenched, essential, established, etched, fast, firm,
     firmly established, fixed, folk, fundamental, graven, hallowed,
     handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implanted, impressed,
     imprinted, inbred, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed,
     infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, instilled, intrinsic,
     inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, long-established,
     long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk,
     old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, oral, prescriptive, radical,
     received, recognized, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized,
     thorough, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue,
     understood, unwritten, venerable, vested, well-established,
     well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, worshipful