Dictionary Definition
grow
Verb
1 pass into a condition gradually, take on a
specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty";
"She grew angry" [syn: turn]
2 become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or
gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew
fast"
3 increase in size by natural process; "Corn
doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the
trees"
4 cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables
in his backyard"
5 develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;
"He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate]
6 come into existence; take on form or shape; "A
new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that
sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a
short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring
up]
7 cultivate by growing, often involving
improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux
region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma";
"We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: raise, farm, produce]
8 come to have or undergo a change of (physical
features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
"Well-developed breasts" [syn: develop, produce, get, acquire]
9 grow emotionally or mature; "The child
developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a
summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some
of his old adolescent behavior" [syn: develop]
10 become attached by or as if by the process of
growth; "The tree trunks had grown together" [also: grown, grew]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɡrəʊ/, /gr@U/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Verb
Related terms
Usage notes
Growed is a slang or dialect inflection for the simple past and past participle.Translations
(intransitive) to become bigger
(intransitive) to appear or sprout
(transitive) to cause something to become bigger
- Czech: pěstovat
- Danish: dyrke
- Finnish: kasvattaa
- German: anbauen, ziehen, züchten
- Hungarian: termel, termeszt
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ڕواندن
- Swedish: odla
- ttbc Chinese: 长 (zhăng)
- ttbc Dutch: groeien
- ttbc French: croître, pousser
- ttbc Icelandic: vaxa, spretta, aukast
- ttbc Ido: kreskar
- ttbc Indonesian: tumbuh, berkembang
- ttbc Japanese: 成長する (せいちょうする, seichō-suru)
- ttbc Korean: 기르다 (gireuda), 자라다 (jarada), 성장하다 (成長하다, seongjang-hada)
- ttbc Old English: lēodan (2)
- ttbc Polish: rosnąć
- ttbc Portuguese: crescer
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: fàs, cinn
- ttbc Spanish: crecer
References
Extensive Definition
Grow may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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