Definition of "take root" [take root]

• To grow roots into soil. (verb)
• To become established, to take hold. (verb)

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• "Richard Casey's tireless efforts ensured that the security ties established under the ANZUS treaty in 1951 by his predecessor, Percy Spender, were able to take root and grow."
• "She'd heard Ruby say locust had such will to live that you could split fence posts from the wood of its trunk and they'd sometimes take root in the postholes and grow."
• "But did the Sufic Tantrism take root in Provence and the Languedoc because there was already a similar tradition in that area?"