Слово англійською: root
Дієслово
Переклад root українською: впроваджувати, коренити, наривати
Детальний опис
of plants
- [intransitive, transitive] root (something) to grow roots; to cause or encourage a plant to grow roots
search
- [intransitive] to search for something by moving things or turning things over synonym rummage
- root (about/around) for something pigs rooting for food
- Who's been rooting around in my desk?
- root (through something) (for something) ‘It must be here somewhere,’ she said, rooting through the suitcase.
- Cats had been rooting in the garbage bags again.
sex
- [intransitive, transitive] root (somebody) (Australian English, New Zealand English, taboo, slang) to have sex with somebody
Word Originverb Old English wrōtan, of Germanic origin; related to Old English wrōt ‘snout’, German Rüssel ‘snout’, and perhaps ultimately to Latin rodere ‘gnaw’.
Phrasal Verbs