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Antonyms for sprout

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sprout
Phonetic Transcription : spraʊt


Definition of sprout

Origin :
  • Old English -sprutan (in asprutan "to sprout"), from Proto-Germanic *spreutanan (cf. Old Saxon sprutan, Old Frisian spruta, Middle Dutch spruten, Old High German spriozan, German sprießen "to sprout"), from PIE root *sper- "to strew" (cf. Greek speirein "to scatter," spora "a scattering, sowing," sperma "sperm, seed," literally "that which is scattered;" Old English spreawlian "to sprawl," -sprædan "to spread," spreot "pole;" Armenian sprem "scatter;" Old Lithuanian sprainas "staring;" Lettish spriezu "I span, I measure"). Related: Sprouted; sprouting.
  • verb develop
Example sentences :
  • In the winter the seeds should be steeped in warm water, and the bag put in a place sufficiently hot to make them sprout.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • He stared at a cylinder which was beginning to sprout tentacles from the circle.
  • Extract from : « Acid Bath » by Vaseleos Garson
  • Boys git that way when they begin to sprout hair under their noses.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • The week passed by, and the old people saw that the pea had begun to sprout.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • The sprout divides into two, forming the beginning of the pair of lungs.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson
  • Seed are of good vitality if a large per cent of them will sprout.
  • Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett
  • Only the acorn lay quiet in the ground and refused to sprout.
  • Extract from : « Finnish Legends for English Children » by R. Eivind
  • And the corn would not sprout, nor the beans, nor the maize, nor the lotus.
  • Extract from : « Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe » by Eugne Brieux
  • Chop off a tree, and it will sprout again; but root it out, and it is no more.
  • Extract from : « The Peace Negotiations » by J. D. Kestell
  • Occasionally, but not often, a stump will sprout and form a second crop.
  • Extract from : « The Cauliflower » by A. A. Crozier

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