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earth up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Or if solar panels could provide the juice that pushes petroleum trapped deep into the earth up to the surface?

The 1999 twister caused the fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth up to that time: 318 miles per hour.

For the enemy were so mad that they tumbled the earth up and down, and would suffer no Corn to grow.

So, when he went out next morning, the Princesses stood out of the earth up to their waists.

They lift the earth up, instead of pressing it downwards, thus loosening instead of compacting the soil.

I had to climb over some rubbish of stones and earth up another staircase, and found myself in a large city of ruins.

The stick sank in the earth up to its handle without meeting with any resistance.

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