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fructifying

/fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook-/US // ˈfrʌk təˌfaɪ, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk- //UK // (ˈfrʌktɪˌfaɪ, ˈfrʊk-) //

果实累累,果实累累的,成熟的,果实丰满

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    fruc·ti·fied, fruc·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    fruc·ti·fied, fruc·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to make fruitful or productive; fertilize: warm spring rains fructifying the earth.

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Examples

  • For amongst the tart sorbs, it befits not the sweet fig to fructify.

  • All that produces does so only for a time; 'tis the law here below, for eternity death alone shall fructify.

  • His high conception of solidarity was to fructify, within a hundred years, under Philippe-Auguste, the grandson of Sugers master.

  • In the spring it recommences vegetation, and emits its branches into the newly-formed organs of its host, there to fructify.

  • Did any portion of the capital annually abstracted from the estate return to it, to fructify and increase its value?