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vb. (context idiomatic chiefly US English) (alternative form of root about English)
Usage examples of "root around".
The more powerful a ruler is, the more likely it is that the seeds of his downfall are already taking root around him.
Without taking the tarp off of us, Lucius began to root around inside the bed of the carriage, taking out a small case that he’.
He waited for a moment, watching a dog root around in the gutter until its owner lost patience jerking at the leash.
Anyway, I've been staying clear, especially when she wants to root around in my head.
All the summer they root around the bushes, and turn up a thousand little piles of dirt, and then the miners long for the rains.
Incidentally, they'd loaded a passive tapsnake on the cyl they gave us, designed to root around for anything else in our files with an HTI keymark on it.
Another demon skittered close, swinging a gnarled root around its flat, reptilian head.
He managed to pull away long enough to root around the floor for his wallet.
He took his clawed finger out of a cavernous nostril, examined it unhappily, then pushed it back for a good root around.