root
/ɹut/ verbo C2En español: raigar, arraigar, enraizar, radicar
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. · The cuttings are starting to root.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. · We rooted some cuttings last summer.
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- 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.· I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.
He/she/it roots · Pasado rooted · Participio pasado rooted · Forma en -ing rooting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- root
- He/she/it
- roots
- Pasado
- rooted
- Participio pasado
- rooted
- Forma en -ing
- rooting
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
“I am sorry to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper and such a vindictive spirit,” he said in a solemn tone, as if the mere fact of being a pupil of his ought to root out all evil passions from the hearts of small imperfect mortals.
Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,” said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, “it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: `To each his own fear’; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.
“There is,” said he, at the end of his meditations, “a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
No, I wasn't satisfied, and I determined that I would get to the root of the matter.
Otras coincidencias
- root raíz, raíces, raigón A2
- root hozar, rebuscar, hurgar C2
- root To cheer C2
- root An act of rummaging or searching. C2
- root about To forage by poking the snout here and there.
- root around To forage by poking the snout here and there.
- root out desraigar, desarraigar, desenraizar
- root up To dig or pull up by the roots.
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