"bear fruit" meaning in English

See bear fruit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: en-au-bear fruit.ogg Forms: bears fruit [present, singular, third-person], bearing fruit [participle, present], bore fruit [past], borne fruit [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bear<,,bore,borne> fruit}} bear fruit (third-person singular simple present bears fruit, present participle bearing fruit, simple past bore fruit, past participle borne fruit)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
    Sense id: en-bear_fruit-en-verb-0HGOHHut
  2. (idiomatic) To succeed in some task; to achieve benefit from a task or project. Tags: idiomatic Translations (succeed in some task): хващам дикиш (hvaštam dikiš) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), 見效 (Chinese Mandarin), 见效 (jiànxiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 結實 (Chinese Mandarin), 结实 (jiēshí) (Chinese Mandarin), zijn vruchten afwerpen (Dutch), tuottaa tulosta (Finnish), porter ses fruits (French), Früchte tragen (German), fruchten (German), Früchte abwerfen (German), αποδίδω καρπούς (apodído karpoús) (Greek), 実を結ぶ (mi o musubu) (Japanese), приноси́ть плоды́ (prinosítʹ plodý) (Russian), dar sus frutas (Spanish), frutar (Spanish), frutear (Spanish), fructificar (Spanish), frutecer (Spanish), འབྲས་བུ་སྐྱེ ('bras bu skye) (Tibetan)
    Sense id: en-bear_fruit-en-verb-H7MbcMUw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tibetan translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English predicates: 40 60 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'succeed in some task': 1 99

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic) To succeed in some task; to achieve benefit from a task or project."
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      "sense": "succeed in some task",
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      "sense": "succeed in some task",
      "word": "zijn vruchten afwerpen"
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      "sense": "succeed in some task",
      "word": "tuottaa tulosta"
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      "word": "Früchte tragen"
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      "roman": "'bras bu skye",
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      "word": "འབྲས་བུ་སྐྱེ"
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