Word Meanings - ROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wroeten to root, G. rüssel snout, trunk, proboscis, Icel. rota to 1. To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. 2. Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROOT)

• Derivation
• Origin
• source
• descent
• beginning
• cause
• etymology
• root
• spring
• analysis
• Fix
• Place
• settle
• fasten
• link
• locate
• attach
• consolidate
• tie
• plant
• establish
• secure
• determine
• decide
• Found
• Establish
• institute
• fix
• set
• build
• set up
• base
• endow
• rest
• ground
• Pith
• Kernel
• marrow
• gist
• substance
• essence
• cream
• Seed
• Spring
• origin
• germ
• embryo

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROOT)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

Related words: (words related to ROOT)

• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• KERNELED; KERNELLED
  Having a kernel.
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.