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upˈgrow, v.
[up- 4. Cf. MDa. opgro.]
intr. To grow up, spring up; fig. to increase.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 246 In his encrees up-growynge as a flour. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vii. 77 Yf me wete Her lond, vpgroweth now this herbis sete. 1513Douglas æneid xi. xi. 14 Ne this luf..of layt in Dyanis breist vpgrew. Ibid. xii. viii. 116 Than mair in greif and ire vpgrowis he. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 137 Over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 810 Tlepolemus spear-famed Had scarce up-grown to manhood's lusty prime. 1848Clough Amours de Voy. iii. 90 The cypress-spires..Withering still at the sight which still they upgrow to encounter. 1867Ld. Houghton Ess. Reform 56 Disappointment was not the soil from which a desire for further change upgrew. |