Definition of gravesco
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Orthography ID = 2024633
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LNS
gravescō, gravescere, -, -
gravis
verb (3rd conjugation)
  1. to become burdened or heavy
  2. to become pregnant
  3. to become grievous or bad, to grow worse
  4. To be cumbered, embarrassed
Abbreviations
gravesco, ere, v. inch. n. [gravis], to become burdened or heavy (poet. and in postAug. prose). Lit. In gen.: fetu nemus omne gravescit, i. e. becomes loaded, filled, Verg. G. 2, 429.

— In partic., to become pregnant: cameli lac habent, donec iterum gravescant, Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 236.

— Trop., to become grievous or bad, to grow worse: aerumna gravescit, Lucr. 4, 1069: impetus, id. 6, 337: haec in morte, id. 3, 1022: valetudo Augusti, Tac. A. 1, 5: publica mala in dies, id. ib. 14, 51.

— To be cumbered, embarrassed, Ambros. de Virg. 1, 6, 25: peccato gravescit oratio, id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 5.
 
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