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grow `verb` [ ɡrəʊ ]

• (of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.

• "he would watch Nick grow to manhood"

Similar: get bigger, get taller, get larger, increase in size, increase in weight, fill out, fatten, heighten, lengthen, enlarge, extend, expand, stretch, spread, widen, swell, increase, multiply, snowball, mushroom, balloon, augment, build up, mount up, pile up,

Opposite: shrink,

• become larger or greater over a period of time; increase.

• "turnover grew to more than $100,000 within three years"

Opposite: shrink,

• become gradually or increasingly.

• "sharing our experiences we grew braver"

Origin: Old English grōwan (originally referring chiefly to plants), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch groeien, also to grass and green.

grow on trees

• be plentiful or easily obtained.
"jobs don't grow on trees"

grow apart

• (of two or more people) become gradually estranged.
"he and his wife had been growing apart for at least a year"

grow away from

• become gradually separated from one's family, friends, or background.
"emotionally his family had grown away from him"

grow into

• become something as a result of natural development or gradual increase.
"Rome began as a city and grew into a huge empire"

grow on

• become gradually more appealing to someone.
"the tune grows on you"

grow out

• (especially of a hairstyle) disappear because of normal growth.
"Colette's old perm had almost grown out"

grow out of

• become too large to wear a garment.
"they gave her some clothes that they had grown out of"

grow up

• advance to maturity; develop into an adult.
"a young girl who grew up in Texas"

grow verb [ ɡrəʊ ]

grow `verb` [ ɡrəʊ ]