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Take root

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To grow roots into soil. intransitive, literally

    "Those tulip bulbs have taken root."

  2. 2
    become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style wordnet
  3. 3
    To become established, to take hold. figuratively, intransitive

    "The new regulations have yet to take root."

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