absol. To accumulate wealth. Obsolete.
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释义 | the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > become rich (13) gather?c1225 absol. To accumulate wealth. Obsolete. richa1375 intransitive. To become rich. Obsolete. purchasec1387 intransitive. To acquire possessions; to amass wealth, become rich; to do well. Obsolete. increasea1425 In pregnant sense: To advance in wealth, fortune, power, influence, etc.; to grow richer, more prosperous, or more powerful; to thrive more and… enrich1525 reflexive and (rarely) intransitive for reflexive. to feather one's nest1583 To cover with feathers. internally: To line with feathers, in to feather one's nest: to avail oneself of opportunities for laying up wealth, to… to make a, one's fortune1596 Position as determined by wealth; amount of wealth; concrete a person's possessions collectively, wealth, ‘substance’; †formerly also plural in… to make one's fortunea1616 One's condition or standing in life; often absol. a prosperous condition, as in to make one's fortune = to win a good position in the world. Also p… fatten1638 figurative. accumulate1747 intransitive. To amass wealth or possessions. to fill one's pipe1821 To supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour something into (a receptacle) till… Phrases: †to fill the hands of (a Hebraism)… to shake the pagoda-tree1825 A mythical tree said to produce pagodas or gold coins (pagoda, n. 3); (hence) a source of wealth. Esp. in to shake the pagoda-tree: (esp. during the… pyramid1926 intransitive. To increase greatly (in value); (also) to become rich. Frequently with up. |
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