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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enroot .
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Examples
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She perceived a challenge in according new content to this ancient, enrooted, highly-charged cultural language.
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That is the vice is so entrenched, so enrooted that the person afflicted does not feel sick anymore.
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I felt that they were near, that they were safe, yet methought this was all deceit; — the earth reeled, the firm-enrooted trees moved — dizziness came over me — I sank to the ground.
The Last Man 2003
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KING: And it's a smart political move, but what about the concept that there's a lot of anti-Semitism enrooted in America, that it is still exists to an extent, that there's no plus on that end?
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No high life, in individuals or nations, is to be hoped for, unless it is enrooted in the infinite spiritual reality, -- in God.
Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding
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He talked on, trying hard not to let her listless air of incredulity freeze the marrow of his bones and the blood in his veins, or cut him so deeply as to destroy his enrooted hope in their splendid future.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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Addressing himself to the workingmen, he declared "Aspiration towards progress, towards the betterment and preservation of earthly well-being is deeply enrooted in human nature and does not contradict the Christian moral laws."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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Another is a dried emptiness flat on its belly, the back in tatters that almost flutter, the hands, feet, and face enrooted in the soil.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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"Anyway," said one of those who sat enrooted there like a sort of shrub, "anyway, we're beginning to understand why we've got to march away."
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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He is upright in the wind, shaken but upright, enrooted there.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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