grown 
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grown (grōn)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
adjective
- having completed its growth; fully developed; mature
- covered with a specified growth
- cultivated as specified home-grown
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Modifies a noun
- accustomed: This he admits to himself in I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
Modifying Another Word
- organically: Organically Grown Once we get the ' locally produced ' right, the rest of the LOAF breaks smoothly.
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We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageö Are they withered in the sod?
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