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Verb

bear fruit (third-person singular simple present bears fruit, present participle bearing fruit, simple past bore fruit, past participle borne fruit)Category:English lemmas#BEARFRUITCategory:English verbs#BEARFRUITCategory:English multiword terms#BEARFRUITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEARFRUITCategory:Pages with entries#BEAR%20FRUITCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEAR%20FRUIT

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear,‎ fruit.

   After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEARFRUIT

2. (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#BEARFRUIT, of an effort, endeavour, etc.) To produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.

   Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.Category:English terms with usage examples#BEARFRUIT

   • 1944 June 7, Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons:

     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.Category:English terms with quotations#BEARFRUIT

   • 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:

     Although the trains are still far from becoming overcrowded, it is understood that the efforts to make the services more widely known have borne fruit.

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   • 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit - Leicester City's powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young's corner.

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