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🧠 To mature 📈 To get bigger 🔄 To become 🌱 To develop 🥕 To plant 🧬 To join naturally
to grow

to grow

39 2.0
Become joined together over time, as body tissue or tree trunks
  • verb
  • /ɡroʊ/
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  • The tree grew around the card in 18 years.

That's a Tyrannosaurus tooth which is inside the bone, and the bone has grown over it.

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Examples

  • The vines grow up the wall as spring progresses.

  • The force of communion makes the Church grow in extension and depth.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The hair will then fall out, but the root will then grow a new hair.

  • My word, little sneak is growing right up along the trunk of that tree.

  • Barnacles grow in a way that bends their shells over.

  • As Aqamdax ate, she hummed songs to her baby, telling him to grow strong like the caribou.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • For the squatter population on the settler farms of the White Highlands, life grew increasingly harsh.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Unlike frogs, planarians under natural circumstances are highly adaptable; planarians can even grow new heads.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Children grow taller when they eat healthy foods.

  • Over time, the city and its surrounding areas grow closer together.

Synonyms

to grow together
vsto grow
4 3.9

To join so closely that two things become one, for example plants or bones

is the general term for becoming attached by natural development not only biological cases

Antonyms

to divide
680 1.1

To split something into parts or groups

to detach
16 3.9

To take something off from what it is connected to

Idioms

to grow a pair
  • Offensive
8 9.9

To become braver and more confident in difficult situations

to grow some balls
  • Offensive
4 9.9

To become braver and act when you are afraid

to let the grass grow under someone's feet
  • Informal
1 8.6

Wait too long to act and miss a chance

to grow a set
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To become more brave and confident when facing problems

to hear the grass grow
  • Informal
1 9.9

A very quiet place where even the smallest sounds seem noticeable

do not grow on trees
  • Informal
8.1

Not easy to find or get

absence makes the heart grow fonder
  • Informal
6.8

Being apart from someone makes you care for them more

to grow some skin
  • Informal
9.4

To become less upset by criticism or problems

Phrasal Verbs

to grow up
∞ 1.3

To change from a child into an adult

to grow out of
31 3.2

Stop liking, doing, or feeling something as you get older

to grow over
4 3.5

To spread over something and cover it, as moss or vines do

to grow together
4 3.9

To join so closely that two things become one, for example plants or bones

to make grow
2 2.9

To help something become bigger or better over time

to grow on someone
5.3

To slowly become more liked by someone

to grow up and settle down
3.4

Become an adult and start a steady life with a job or family

How Joined

to fuse
44 3.9
to grow
39 2.0
to attach
459 2.5

Surface Forms

grow infinitive
growing present participle
grows third person singular
grew past
grown past participle

Etymology

Grow comes from an old Germanic word grōwan meaning 'to become green', with the sense of things changing naturally and joining over time. That's why grow can mean to come together by natural growth, as when wounds or tree trunks 'grow' together.