Crossword-Solution: SPROUT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sprout | v. t. | To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. |
| Sprout | v. t. | To shoot into ramifications. |
| Sprout | v. t. | To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed. |
| Sprout | v. t. | To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes. |
| Sprout | v. i. | The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. |
| Sprout | v. i. | Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPROUT | anagram | PROUST, STUPOR |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPROUT (5)
Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.
The Lion said to the Fox, “It is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.” The Owl and the Birds 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.
The chance remark of a sweetheart, “I hear that you are a coward,” may water a seed that shall sprout and bloom and flourish, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage—in the fields of war.
The noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh is no more—the last sprout of the sainted Confessor! Hopes have perished with him which can never return!—A sparkle hath been quenched by his blood, which no human breath can again rekindle! My people, save the few who are now with me, do but tarry my presence to transport his honoured remains to their last mansion.
Her father said she had been to a fashionable school: that surely is a guarantee that the delicate tendrils of her mind have never begun to sprout.
Quotes with SPROUT (3)
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Sometimes, good things that go wrong are like seeds. They have to be buried for something bigger and better to sprout out of them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).