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1. The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

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: routing

Derived forms: rootings

See also: rootage

Type of: become, copulate, couple, cut into, delve, development, dig, grow, growing, growth, mate, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, pair, plant, set, stabilise [Brit], stabilize, turn over

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