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Grown

adjective

1.

(of animals) fully developed. Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup. "A grown woman"

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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"Grown" Quotes from Famous Books

... From the patent inner columns of the "Carlow County Herald" might be gleaned the information (enlivened by cuts of duchesses) that the London season had reached a high point of gaiety; and that, although the weather had grown inauspiciously warm, there was sufficient gossip for the thoughtful. To the rapt mind of Miss Selina Tibbs came a delicious moment of comparison: precisely the same conditions ...

— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... always wore unbleached shirts at harvest-time. Mrs. Hill was a thrifty housewife. She had pursued this economical avocation for some little time, interrupting herself only at times to "shu!" away the flocks of half-grown chickens that came noisily about the door for the crumbs from the table-cloth, when the sudden shutting down of a great blue cotton umbrella caused her to drop her work, ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... obstinate resolution of the master of the house to stay in it as usual. They gave up the notion of a cottage, and they were not going far away, nor for long at any one time; in fact, one or other of them was always in the house. Mrs. Corey had grown into the habit of confidence with Lemuel concerning her husband's whims and foibles; and this motherly frankness from a lady so stately and distant at first was a flattery more poisonous to his soul than any other circumstance of his ...

— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells

... passage serviceable to their own purpose; though from the coherence of what went before, or follows after, the genuine meaning appears to be either wide enough, or perhaps quite contradictory to what they would thrust and impose upon it. In which knack the divines are grown now so expert, that the lawyers themselves begin to be jealous of an encroachment upon what was formerly their sole privilege and practice. And indeed what can they despair of proving, since the fore-mentioned commentator (I had almost blundered out his ...

— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus

... has demonstrated how surplus of American food and fiber can be effectively used to feed and clothe the needy abroad. Aided by this humanitarian program, total agricultural exports have grown from $2.8 billion in 1953 to an average of about $4 billion annually for the past three years. For 1960, exports are estimated at $4.5 billion, the highest volume on record. Under the Food-for-Peace program, the largest ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower • Dwight D. Eisenhower

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