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单词 upgrow
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upgrowv.

Etymology: up- prefix 3a. Compare Middle Danish opgro.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: upˈgrow.
intransitive. To grow up, spring up; figurative to increase.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)]
forthwaxa900
wax971
growOE
risec1175
anhigh1340
upwax1340
creasec1380
increasec1380
accreasea1382
augmenta1400
greata1400
mountc1400
morec1425
upgrowc1430
to run up1447
swell?c1450
add1533
accresce1535
gross1548
to get (a) head1577
amount1583
bolla1586
accrue1586
improve1638
aggrandize1647
accumulate1757
raise1761
heighten1803
replenish1814
to turn up1974
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow
waxc1000
thrivec1175
breeda1350
grow1382
springc1384
upgrowc1430
shoot1538
bud1566
eche1567
to start up1570
vegetate1605
excresce1691
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 246 In his encrees up-growynge as a flour.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. vii. 77 Yf me wete Her lond, vpgroweth now this herbis sete.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xi. 14 Ne this luf..of layt in Dyanis breist vpgrew.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. viii. 116 Than mair in greif and ire vpgrowis he.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 137 Over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 810 Tlepolemus spear-famed Had scarce up-grown to manhood's lusty prime.
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 669 The cypress-spires..Withering still at the sight which still they upgrew to encounter.
1867 Ld. Houghton Ess. Reform 56 Disappointment was not the soil from which a desire for further change upgrew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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