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Adjective: rooted  roo-tid
  1. Absolutely still
    "they stood rooted in astonishment"
    - frozen, stock-still
     
  2. [Austral, NZ] Out of working order ('busted' is an informal substitute for 'broken')
    "a rooted washing machine"
    - broken, busted, buggered [Brit], on the fritz [N. Amer], on the blink, kaput, knackered [Brit], out of order
Verb: root  root
  1. Take root and begin to grow
    "this plant roots quickly"
     
  2. Come into existence, originate
    "The problem roots in her depression"
     
  3. Plant by the roots
     
  4. Dig with the snout
    "the pig was rooting for truffles"
    - rout, rootle
     
  5. Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
    "He finally rooted down"
    - settle, take root, steady down, settle down
     
  6. Cause to take roots
     
  7. [Austral, NZ, vulgar] Have sexual intercourse with
    "This student roots everyone in her dorm"
    - sleep together, love, make out, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it, be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk [Brit], make whoopee

Sounds like: routed

See also: damaged, nonmoving, rootage, rooting, unmoving

Type of: become, copulate, couple, cut into, delve, dig, grow, mate, pair, plant, set, stabilise [Brit], stabilize, turn over

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