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Verb (1)

root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)

1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
   • The cuttings are starting to root.
2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
   • We rooted some cuttings last summer.
3. To fix firmly; to establish.
   • If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.1823, Gilbert Burnet, The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench
4. (slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
   • We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

   Synonyms:

   jailbreak

Verb (2)

root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)

1. (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
   • A pig roots the earth for truffles.
2. (broadly) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
   • Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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