ENROOTING Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

enrooting

verb

present participle of enroot

as in planting

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set everyone remembers that special teacher who enrooted within them a love of learning

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as in rooting

to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter a deeply enrooted tradition of respect for the elderly

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Ronald Watts, accused of planting evidence to frame hundreds of men.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have sent fertilizer costs soaring, just as farmers pay higher interest rates on the loans needed to get from planting to harvest season.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of planting

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Unlike rooting hormone powder, this is a liquid product that helps plants overcome transplant shock.

— Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026
The London native had watched NFL games played at Wembley on television before, but arrived Saturday with no rooting interest in either Kansas or Arizona State.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of rooting

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The first calf was born in 2013; by 2025, the project had become one of Namibia’s larger privately run rhino-breeding operations.

— Rhett Ayers Butler, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
The William & Mary biologist followed their recovery from the DDT era as the bay became home to the world’s largest breeding population of ospreys.

— Mark Robichaux, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026

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Part of it has to do with Tariq, a Pakistani American filmmaker who partially grew up in Texas and has a knack for embedding a dizzying aesthetic into cross-cultural explorations.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
By starting with high-value use cases, embedding governance and security by design, and establishing clear economic measures tied to business outcomes, organizations can move from isolated AI pilots to scalable AI execution.

— Dilip Kumar, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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