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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Root \Root\ (r[=oo]t), verb (used without an object) [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.
In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. --Mortimer.
2. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. --Bp. Fell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rooted \Root"ed\, adjective Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. ''A rooted sorrow.'' --Shak. -- {Root"ed*ly}, adverb -- {Root"ed*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rooted
adjective: 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
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