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Rooting

verb
Word Frequency: 0.9

Definitions

1.verbTo grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
"The cuttings are starting to root."
2.verbTo prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
"We rooted some cuttings last summer."
3.verbTo be firmly fixed; to be established.
4.verbTo get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
"I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware."
5.verbTo turn up or dig with the snout.
"A pig roots the earth for truffles."
6.verb(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
7.verbTo rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
"rooting about in a junk-filled drawer"
8.verbTo root out; to abolish.
9.verbTo have sexual intercourse.
10.verb(with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
"I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!"
11.nounA system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
12.nounThe process of forming roots.
13.nounA method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
14.nounA hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.

Synonyms

jailbreakbangdrillscrewshagdig outroot outrummagebarrackcheer onsolutionrootle

Rhymes With

disputingrefutingcommutingconstitutingshootingcomputingflutingfruiting
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