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Variant of grow

grow definition

grow (grō)

intransitive verb grew, grown, growing grow′·ing

  1. to come into being or be produced naturally; spring up; sprout
  2. to exist as living vegetation; thrive cactus grows in sand
  3. to increase in size and develop toward maturity, as a plant or animal does by assimilating food
  4. to increase in size, quantity, or degree, or in some specified manner to grow in wisdom
  5. to come to be; become to grow weary
  6. to become attached or united by growth

Etymology: ME growen < OE growan, akin to ON grōa, OHG gruoen < IE base *ghrō-, to grow, turn green > green, grass

transitive verb

    1. to cause to grow; raise; cultivate
    2. to cause to develop or flourish to grow a business
  2. to cover with a growth: used in the passive a yard grown over with weeds
  3. to allow to grow to grow a beard
  4. to cause to be or to exist; develop

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grow Idioms

grow into

  1. to develop so as to be a boy grows into a man
  2. to grow or develop so as to fit into or be suited to

grow on

Informal to have a gradually increasing effect on; come gradually to seem more important, dear, or admirable to

grow out of

  1. to develop from
  2. to outgrow

grow up

  1. to reach maturity; become adult or attain full growth
  2. to come to be; develop; arise

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

growing Synonyms

growing

modif.

increasing, ever-widening, crescive, crescent, expanding, budding, germinating, maturing, burgeoning, fructifying, waxing, enlarging, amplifying, swelling, developing, mushrooming, spreading, thriving, flourishing, pullulating, dilating, augmenting, stretching, living, sprouting, cloning, viable, organic, animate, spreading like wildfire*.

Antonyms lessening, withering, shrinking.


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growing quotes

Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven't committed.

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke

The point is the seeingöthe grace beyond recognition, the ways of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown, beyond the range of language, beyond its noun. Eyes open on growing, flying, happening, and go on opening. Manifold, the world dawns on unrecognizing, realizing eyes. Amazement is the thing. Not love, but the astonishment of loving.

-Reid, Alastair

   'Would you just as soon get off the earth?' holding ourselves aloof in pride of distinction saying to ourselves this costs us nothing as though hate has no cost as though hate ever grewanything worth growing.

-Sandburg, Carl

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