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单词 to grow to a head
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to grow to a head
54. A result, an outcome; a conclusion, a culmination; a pitch or peak of intensity, force, etc., typically attained gradually. In later use: esp. a situation where crucial issues must be resolved or addressed, a critical point. Chiefly in various verbal phrases, as to draw to a head, to grow to a head. See also to bring to a head at Phrases 4b, to come to a head at Phrases 4c, to gather to a head at gather v. 19b. [With reference to undesirable developments often with allusion to sense 19a.]
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the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > a conclusion or end
finea1300
head1340
conclusion1382
close1399
finishmentc1400
issue1479
pass1542
tittle est Amen1568
wind-up1573
wind-up-all1573
upshot1586
catastrophe1609
come-off1640
period1713
pay-off1926
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > reach highest point
to grow to a head1579
culminatea1662
climax1882
peak1937
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > to highest degree > reach highest degree of increase
to grow to a head1579
to gather to a heada1616
to come to a head1655
culminatea1662
climax1882
to reach a crescendo1925
to top off1970
to top out1972
the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > bring to a final point or issue
to bring, come, etc., to the (or an) upshot1604
issue1650
to draw to a head1678
bring1711
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 183 (MED) He yefþ red huerby me comþ to guode heauede [Fr. a bon chief] and to guode ende of þet me nimþ an hand.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 13v Sith these abuses are growne to heade, and sinne so ripe.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 103 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) To keepe them from growing unto such a head.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. xxiii. 116 There (which is the heade of all thy felicitie) thine eyes shall see him whom now thine heart longeth for.
1658 J. Owen Of Temptation ii. 23 The season wherein it [sc. temptation] growes to a head.
1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius (at cited word) To draw to a head, or to sum up, recapitulor, in summam colligo.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 88 Now all the impressions of burning desire,..ripen'd by the heat of this exercise, and collecting to a head, throb'd and agitated me with insupportable irritations.
1763 J. Wesley Serm. Reformation Manners 14 Vice is risen to such an head, that it is impossible to suppress it.
1824 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship I. i. vi. 30 Let us hear how your taste for the theatre gradually reached a head.
1888 R. F. Horton Inspiration & Bible (1889) vi. 170 But it is time to draw to a head this somewhat lengthened discussion.
1904 T. Longueville Adventures James II i. 7 Affairs had got to such a head that the imminence of severe fighting in the midland counties became highly probable.
1921 Freeman 28 Sept. 59/2 Propaganda and resentment drew to a head during the general revolutionary movement of last year.
1962 D. M. Lang Mod. Hist. Soviet Georgia viii. 177 Matters reached a head in 1908, when the Russian Exarch of Georgia..was murdered.
2005 Maisonneuve (Canada) Feb. 4/1 George W. Bush is a reckoner, someone who drives things to a head.
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