take root
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Verb edit
take root (third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root)
- (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.
- Those tulip bulbs have taken root.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.
- The new regulations have yet to take root.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
Translations edit
to grow roots into soil
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to become established, to take hold
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