take root
Verb
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Verb
take 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.
- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3
- 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.
- French: prendre racine, raciner
- Portuguese: enraizar
- Russian: принима́ться
- Spanish: radicar, echar raíces, arraigar
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