take root
To become established or fixed

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take root
if an idea, belief, or system takes root somewhere, it starts to be accepted or established there.
Democracy is now struggling to take root in most of these countries.

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take root
to begin to take hold or have effect
The ideas of honesty and good manners are beginning to take root in the school children.

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take root
v. phr.
1. To form roots so as to be able to live and grow.
We hope the transplanted apple trees will take root.
2. To be accepted; to be adopted; to live and succeed in a new place.
Many European customs failed to take root in the New World.
The immigrants to our country took root and began to think of themselves as Native Americans.

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