sprout
/spɹaʊt/ verbo C1En español: brotar
- To grow from seed; to germinate. · The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.
- To cause to grow from a seed. · I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.
- To deprive of sprouts. · to sprout potatoes
- To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- To emerge haphazardly from a surface. · Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.
- To emerge or appear haphazardly. · A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.
He/she/it sprouts · Pasado sprouted · Participio pasado sprouted · Forma en -ing sprouting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
- sprouted
- Participio pasado
- sprouted
- Forma en -ing
- sprouting
De la biblioteca
AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it to grow.
From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
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