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take root
Idioms and Phrases
Become established or fixed, as in We're not sure how the movement took root, but it did so very rapidly . This idiom transfers the establishment of a plant, whose roots settle into the earth, to other matters. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
His conspiracy theories have firmly taken root, and far-right extremism is flourishing.
As spring camp winds down this week, the seeds of such trust have indeed started to take root.
Part of our immune defences - a white blood cell called a T-cell - can swoop in and destroy the spreading cancer as it tries to take root.
In New Zealand, the concept has taken root.
This platform of negation took root quickly, radically changing what the GOP saw as its purpose.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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