ROOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rooted mean? 

• ROOTED (adjective)
  The adjective ROOTED has 1 sense:

1. absolutely still

  Familiarity information: ROOTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Absolutely still

Synonyms:

frozen; rooted; stock-still

Context example:

they stood rooted in astonishment

Similar:

nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)

 Context examples 

He had been walking fast about the room, and he stopped, as if suddenly rooted to one spot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What Peggotty had told me now, was so far from bringing me back to the later period, that it rooted the earlier image in my mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Simulating others’ decisions is a sophisticated cognitive process that is rooted in social learning.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground, their eyes starting from their heads.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These guidelines are rooted in the well established relationship between sodium intake and blood pressure.

(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He made tentative efforts to go, but seemed awkwardly rooted to the spot.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A single-cusped (pointed) and usually single-rooted tooth located between the incisors and premolars.

(Canine Tooth, NCI Thesaurus)

She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight—and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)