Grow

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English

Verb

Grow (third-person singular simple present grows, present participle growing, simple past grew, past participle grown)

  1. (intransitive) To become bigger.
    Children grow quickly.
  2. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
    Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
    A long tail began to grow from his backside.
  3. (transitive) To cause something to become bigger, especially cultivate plants.
    He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
  4. (intransitive) To assume a condition or quality, usually a positive one.
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    The Bush administration – which sought to grow the number of fisheries managed under a program known as “catch shares”...
    The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.

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Notes

Growed is a slang or dialect inflection for the simple past and past participle.

The use of grow transitively, as a synonym for increase, with an object that is not growing by itself (i.e living), is a neologism and contrary to the historical use of the word, as shown in the quotation above. Historically, grow has only been used transitively with living things (grow corn and potatoes, grow breasts, grow a tail).

Adverbs for Grow

tremendously; luxuriously; abundantly; proportionately; sensibly; vigorously; culturally; inevitably; formidably; abnormally; densely; miraculously; infinitely; ulcerously; wantonly; pendulously; phenomenally; intellectually; malignantly; tropically; vernally; spiritually.

Thesaurus

accrue, accumulate, advance, age, appreciate, arise, attain majority, balloon, be changed, be converted into, bear fruit, become, bloat, bloom, blossom, boom, breed, brew, broaden, bud, burgeon, burst forth, care for, carve, chisel, come, come of age, come over, come to be, come to maturity, convert, crescendo, crop, cultivate, culture, develop, dryfarm, enlarge, evolute, evolve, expand, extract, farm, fatten, feed, fledge, flourish, flower, foster, fructify, gain, gain strength, garden, gather, gemmate, germinate, get, get ahead, get to be, go, go up, grow rank, grow up, harvest, hatch, hypertrophy, increase, intensify, issue, keep, leaf, leaf out, leave, leave the nest, lengthen, luxuriate, machine, maturate, mature, mellow, mill, mine, mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse, nurture, originate, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, plant, process, procreate, produce, progress, proliferate, propagate, prosper, pullulate, pump, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, raise, ranch, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, rear, refine, reproduce, riot, ripe, ripen, rise, rise up, root, run, run up, season, settle down, sharecrop, shoot, shoot up, smelt, snowball, sow, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stem, strengthen, strike root, swell, take root, temper, tend, thicken, thrive, toga virilis, tower, turn, turn into, upgrow, uprise, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax, widen

Etymology

Old English grōwan, from Proto-Germanic *grōanan (compare Dutch groeien, Old Norse gróa), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁-. Related to grass, green.

Pronunciation

Translations

(intransitive) to become bigger
(intransitive) to appear or sprout
(transitive) to cause something to become bigger
to assume a condition or quality
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