radicate

radicate verb: to cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

Verb

radicate (third-person singular simple present radicates, present participle radicating, simple past and past participle radicated)

(rare, transitive) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

Synonyms:

root, settle, ingrain
(intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
- And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...
(rare, transitive) To extract the root of a number.
- Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36

radicate

Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

third-person singular present	radicates
present participle	radicating
past participle	radicated
past	radicated

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

What does radicate mean?: Radicate means to cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
What part of speech is radicate?: Radicate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of radicate?: The past tense of radicate is radicated.

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