Etimology
From Middle English growen, from Old English grōwan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōan, from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).
verb
grow (third-person singular simple present grows, present participle growing, simple past grew or (dialectal) growed, past participle grown or (dialectal) growed)
(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
(ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
(intransitive) To appear or sprout.
(intransitive) To develop, to mature.
(transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
Examples
Children grow quickly.
[...] but the dangers to trespassers, especially children, are growing, and a vigorous educational programme is urged.
Apples now grow all over the world.
Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.
A long tail began to grow from his backside.
As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
Have you ever grown your hair before?
The Bush administration – which sought to grow the number of fisheries managed under a program known as “catch shares”...
And — again to overgeneralize from my experience — users may not want a second Twitter either. I was a heavy Twitter user for over a decade. I loved it until I didn’t. I made connections, grew a following, floated ideas, had fun. But it also became a second, often angry, voice inside my head. Do I want to replace it with another one?
The boy grew wise as he matured.
The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
You have grown strong.
In fact she was so bus doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
Related words
antonyms
shrink