Radicate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Radicate is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
Meaning
(transitive, rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
- (transitive, arithmetic, rare) To extract the root of a number.
- Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
- (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
- (zoology) Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.
Example Sentences
Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]
And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate
Word Forms
- radicates
- radicating
- radicated
Synonyms for radicate
Depending on context, synonyms include root, settle, ingrain.
Antonyms for radicate
Common opposites include eradicate, uproot, deracinate.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include enroot, set in, root, enrace, catch, plant.
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