English words starting with root

Meanings of Root about:

phrasal verb

To search for something, especially by looking through other things

Usage examples:

She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

Meanings of Root around:

phrasal verb

To search for something, especially by looking through other things

Usage examples:

She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

Meanings of Root for:

phrasal verb

Support or hope for the success of a person or group entering a contest or undertaking a challenge.

Usage examples:

The whole of this club is rooting for him

verb

To give encouragement and approval to someone or something because you want the person or thing to succeed

Usage examples:

The president strongly supported egypt’s role in the negotiations., my family always supported me i…

Meanings of Root out:

phrasal verb

Find and get rid of a harmful or dangerous person or thing.

Usage examples:

He made it his goal to root out all spies in his midst

Meanings of Root-and-branch:

idiom

Completely

Usage examples:

Racism must be eliminated, root and branch.

Meanings of Rootedly:

adverb

In a rooted or firmly established manner.

Meanings of Rootery:

noun

An ornamental arrangement of tree roots with soil between them into which garden plants are set.

Meanings of Rootholds:

noun

Attachment by means of roots; a place where roots can take hold.

Meanings of Rootiness:

noun

The quality of being rooty.

Meanings of Rootlessness:

noun

A feeling of not having a home to return to

Usage examples:

He is struggling with his rootlessness as an indian in australia., her sense of rootlessness became…

Meanings of Rootling:

verb

Another term for root2.

Usage examples:

The terriers scuttled off to rootle through the brushwood