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Root for

verb

Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for. Synonym: pull. "I'm pulling for the underdog" , "Are you siding with the defender of the title?"

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"Root for" Quotes from Famous Books

... how are you sure I am here to encourage you?" she questioned mischievously. "Maybe I'm going to root for Hixley High." ...

— The Rover Boys at Colby Hall - or The Struggles of the Young Cadets • Arthur M. Winfield

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... a modification of t, s, or th, appears in such words as tu, su, thou, etc! Now this constancy of the Pronoun exists in most languages; but not in an equally palpable and manifest form. It is disguised in several ways. Sometimes, as in the Indo-European tongues, there is one root for the nominative and one for the oblique cases; sometimes the same form, as in the Finlandic, runs through the whole declension; sometimes, as when we say you for thou in English, one number is substituted for another; and sometimes, as when the German says sie for thou, a change of ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

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Words linked to "Root for" : side, pull