| 单词 | to grow away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grow away a. of plants. Also to grow away, to develop (well). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > grow or increase in size waxc897 growa1000 to get away1813 to grow up1840 to grow away1933 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Sedgefield) xxxiv. §10 Hwy ne meaht þu ongitan..þæt eall se dæl se ðe þæs treowes on twelf monðum gewexð, þæt he onginð of þæm wyrtrumum & swa upweardes grewð oð ðone stemn? c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) x. 117 The Hed smot in to the Eerthe and wax grene and is growed to a gret Tree. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. iii. 33 Great bushes, and wilde brambles, which in process of time..were so growen and multiplyed. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. iv. 13 Great weedes grow apace. 1624 F. Quarles Sions Sonets xiii. 1 How can my thriving Plants refuse to grow Thus quickned with so sweet a Sun as thou? 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 139 When it [sc. corn] was growing and grown. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) 128 The living organism grows, the dead crystal increases. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 58 99 When..the requisite number of shoots are growing away well. 1961 Listener 10 Aug. 222/2 All Talisman plants will be small and behind all other varieties, but they grow away to produce good crops without any difficulty. < as lemmas |
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