phrasal
1. : to send forth roots : become rooted
2. : to become fixed or established as if by sending forth roots
colony has taken root and becomme a city — Tom Marvel
free public education had been slow to take root — Jerome Ellison
expectation takes root that American military forces will be available against any aggressor — A.O.Wolfers
the price … of never having been allowed to take root in any community — F.R.Leavis