enrootv.
/ɛnˈruːt/ transitive.
1.
a. To fix by the root.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)]
setc725
planteOE
impc1420
enroot1490
implant1610
to put in1657
to plant out1664
to put out1699
to stop in1826
to put down1865
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1889) 17 Smalle busshes or lytyll trees, by humydite and hete, depely enroted in the erthe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iii. sig. Ee And eke enrooted deepe must be that Tree, Whose big embodied braunches shall not lin, Till they to heuens hight forth stretched bee.
1838–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 553/1 In old persons close to the entrance [of the ear] hairs..are enrooted.
b. figurative. To implant deeply in the mind; to fix firmly in custom or habit.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make (a habit) inveterate
inveterate1574
to dye in (the) wool, in grain1579
enroot1596
irradicate1836
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 24 The guilt of that infected cryme Which was enrooted in all fleshly slyme.
1688 King James II Let. to Earl of Feversham (single sheet) Your former Principles are so enrooted in you.
1805 Ann. Rev. 3 255 It has not the courage of the antient parliaments, because it is less inrooted.
2. To entangle root with root.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > entangle or make tangled [verb (transitive)]
windc1315
harlc1400
snarlc1440
tangle1530
ravela1540
crawl1548
entangle1555
intertangle1589
enroot1600
impester1601
fasel1636
perplex1642
fankle1724
warple1768
hankle1781
intertwist1797
taffle1840
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 205 His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That plucking to vnfix an enemy, He doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend. View more context for this quotation
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