Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grow up. Milton, P. L., ix. 677.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To grow up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To grow up - John Milton
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Examples
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Now this Wady was a desert waste, without grass or water; so she turned a third face of the jewel towards the sky, and said, “By the virtue of the names of Allah, let trees upgrow here and a river flow beside them!”
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Now this Wady was a desert waste, without grass or water; so she turned a third face of the jewel towards the sky, and said, "By the virtue of the names of Allah, let trees upgrow here and a river flow beside them!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Withering still at the sight which still they upgrow to encounter.
Amours De Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough 1840
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