bear fruit
bear fruit verb: of an effort, endeavor, etc., to produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.
Verb
bear fruit (third-person singular simple present bears fruit, present participle bearing fruit, simple past bore fruit, past participle borne fruit)
- Of an effort, endeavor, etc., to produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.
- Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.
- The House should, I think, take formal cognisance of the liberation of Rome[…]. This is a memorable and glorious event, which rewards the intense fighting of the last five months in Italy. The original landing, made on January 22nd at Anzio, has, in the end, borne good fruit.1944 June 7, Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
- After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.
bear fruit meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
bear fruit in Marathi
- to bear fruit
- फळणे phaḷṇe
bear fruit in Urdu
- to bear fruit
- پھلنا phalnā
bear fruit in Bengali
- bear fruit
- ফলা phola
More languagesFewer languages
- bear fruit in Telugu
- కాచు kācu, కాయు kāyu
- bear fruit in Malayalam
- ഫലമുണ്ടാകുക, കായ്ക്കുക, ഫലം കായ്ക്കുക, കാലഫലമുണ്ടാകുക
- bear fruit in Kannada
- ಬೆಳೆಗೊಡು
- bear fruit in Gujarati
- પાકવું pākvũ
- bear fruit in Sanskrit
- धन् dhan
Forms of bear fruit
| third-person singular present | bears fruit |
|---|---|
| present participle | bearing fruit |
| past | bore fruit |
| past participle | borne fruit |
Questions about bear fruit
- What does bear fruit mean?
- Bear fruit means of an effort, endeavor, etc., to produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.
- What is bear fruit in Tamil?
- Bear fruit in Tamil is கா. See Bear fruit meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bear fruit?
- Bear fruit is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bear fruit?
- The past tense of bear fruit is bore fruit.
Words near bear fruit in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bear fruit (page history and authors); bear fruit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); फळणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); پھلنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ফলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); కాచు (Telugu) (page history and authors); bear fruit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bear fruit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પાકવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); धन् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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