单词 | to be grown about |
释义 | > as lemmasto be grown about 15. passive. Of land, etc.: To be covered with a growth of something. Also with over. So †to be grown about (i.e. surrounded by a growth), to be grown up (i.e. crowded with a growth).These uses seem to have arisen partly from the indirect passive of phrases like to grow over, and partly from the intransitive perfect conjugated with be. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > be covered with vegetation [verb (intransitive)] begrowna1250 to be grown about1488 to be grown up1748 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 716 That bog..Growyn our with reys. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Circunlita musco saxa,..growen about with mosse. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxiv. 31 It was all growen ouer with thornes. View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 539 This Iland is throughly growne with Woods. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 95 The Country held verdant, well grown with Trees. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 142 The country in the neighbourhood was so grown up with wood,..that it appeared impracticable to penetrate it. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xv Its banks sedgy and thickly grown with flaggers and bulrushes. a1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xx. 277 The field was grown up with corn so tall as to cut off the view. < as lemmas |
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