Crossword-Solution: ROOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Root | v. i. | To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
| Root | v. i. | Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely. |
| Root | v. t. | To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth. |
| Root | n. | The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. |
| Root | n. | The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. |
| Root | n. | An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop. |
| Root | n. | That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like. |
| Root | n. | An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem. |
| Root | n. | A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical. |
| Root | n. | The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source. |
| Root | n. | That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27. |
| Root | n. | The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed. |
| Root | n. | The lowest place, position, or part. |
| Root | n. | The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
| Root | v. i. | To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. |
| Root | v. i. | To be firmly fixed; to be established. |
| Root | v. t. | To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike. |
| Root | v. t. | To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROOT | anagram | OORT, ORTO, OTRO, ROTO, TORO |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ROOT (5)
Thus _Beelzebub_ Pleaded his devilish Counsel, first devis’d By _Satan_, and in part propos’d: for whence, But from the Author of all ill could Spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spite The great Creatour? But thir spite still serves His glory to augment.
The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.” Jupiter and the Monkey JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest.
Other vegetables and root crops are cultivated for local consumption, although Guadeloupe is still dependent on imported food, which comes mainly from France.
Her tone and mien signified beyond mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere question of time and natural seriate changes.
See how the trees beside a stream in flood Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed, But by resisting perish root and branch.
Quotes with ROOT (3)
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of …
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love…
The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 745 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).