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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 worse until, in 1771, Governor Tryon raised an army in the eastern counties, under a law of the Assembly, and marched to Orange to put down what he called the "rebellion of the Regulators," Colonel Waddell, with another body of troops, ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... politic to follow, a stir of life woke at Valmy: a small troop passed out from the grey arch facing the river and took the Tours road. The distance was too great to distinguish who comprised it. But Valmy was awake, and with Valmy awake the sooner he faced his doubts the better—doubts grow by nursing, and given time enough their ...

— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond

... be easier to wish for this than to obtain it. Mr. Slope, however, was not without some means of forwarding his views, and he at any rate did not let the grass grow under his feet. In the first place, he thought—and not vainly—that he could count upon what assistance the bishop could give him. He immediately changed his views with regard to his patron; he made up his mind that if he became dean, he would hand his lordship back again ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... in substituting various methods of wire-work for poles; and washing, generally with quassia chips and soft soap and water, has become wellnigh universal, so that the expense of growing the crop has increased, while the price has been falling.[672] The crop has always been an expensive one to grow; Marshall in 1798 put it at L20 an acre, exclusive of picking, drying, and marketing[673]; and Young estimated the total cost at the same date at L31 10s. an acre[674]; to-day L40 an acre is by no means an outside ...

— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... hold Relaxed, nor ever from the stars withdrew His steadfast eyes, still watchful when behold! A slumberous bough the god revealed to view, Thrice dipt in Styx, and drenched with Lethe's dew. Then, lightly sprinkling, o'er the pilot's brows The drowsy dewdrops from the leaves he threw. Dim grow his eyes; the languor of repose Steals o'er his faltering ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

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