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Grow   /groʊ/   Listen
Grow

verb
(past grew; past part. grown ; pres. part. growing)
1.
Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become.  Synonym: turn.  "She grew angry"
2.
Become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain.  "Her business grew fast"
3.
Increase in size by natural process.  "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees" , "Her hair doesn't grow much anymore"
4.
Cause to grow or develop.
5.
Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation.  Synonyms: maturate, mature.  "The child grew fast"
6.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
7.
Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques.  Synonyms: farm, produce, raise.  "They produce good ham in Parma" , "We grow wheat here" , "We raise hogs here"
8.
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).  Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce.  "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"
9.
Grow emotionally or mature.  Synonym: develop.  "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
10.
Become attached by or as if by the process of growth.



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"Grow" Quotes from Famous Books



... contemptible arts by which a gallant nation has been enslaved. The Government of Napoleon, as Mr. Gladstone said of that of Bomba, "was a negation of God upon earth." His councillors were bold bad men, ever plotting against each other, and united alone in a common conspiracy to grow rich at the expense of their country, creverunt in exitio patriae. His court was the El Dorado of pimps and parasites, panders and wantons. For eighteen long years he retained the power, which he had acquired through ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... Listen to this, will you?—'Why should we stand by and permit these shameless egoists of industry to bleed the strength from the community's sinew and grow rich by homicide at the cost ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... before he had himself spoken a word. And as the trouble would always have been in his own bosom, there would, so to say, have been no trouble at all. A man's sorrows of that kind do not commence, or at any rate are not acutely felt, while the knowledge of the matter from which they grow is confined altogether ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope
... shouldst get into the way, so thou shouldst also be much in studying and musing on the way. You know men that would be expert in anything, they are usually much in studying of that thing, and so likewise is it with those that quickly grow expert in any way. This therefore thou shouldst do; let thy study be much exercised about Christ, which is the way, what He is, what He hath done, and why He is what He is, and why He hath done what is done; as why "He took upon Him the form of a servant" ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10) • Grenville Kleiser
... understood that I express myself in a worldly sense, and not according to nature. Nothing proves, my son, that you have not been begot by a Sylph. It is the very thing I prefer to believe, in so far as your spirit, still delicate, shall grow ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France


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