to grow together
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3.9
- phrasal verb
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crecer juntos
- As the seedlings sprouted, they grew together, forming a thick green mat across the ground.
- eyebrows grow together
- bones grew together
- let them grow together
Examples
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Because they grow together in groups, their shallow roots intertwine with each other for strength and support.
Blog text (24) -
They had grown together and learned to love each other with a steadfastness that surprised him sometimes.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's all about growing up and growing together.
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I am leaving it to ALL of you to own, manage, and grow together.
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But they have grown together over thousands of years.
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After all, we have grown together.
Fiction book (1994) -
They will grow as we grow together.
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We are both ever so grateful that we've grown together instead of apart.
Blog text (9) -
The two trees grew together, their branches intertwined to create a beautiful canopy.
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Over time, the vines grew together, merging into a single, robust plant that flourished in the sun.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
638
2.7
To mix two or more things into one
39
2.0
Become joined together over time, as body tissue or tree trunks
26
5.9
To come together or bring things together
5
3.1
To move or bring close together to form a small group
4
7.4
To join several groups or parts to make one
3
6.2
To stick together to form one unit, like parts of a machine or ideas in a plan
2
3.9
Make people or groups work closely together as one
1
7.1
To join with another substance, often in a chemical reaction
1
9.9
Join a branch of one plant to another so they grow together
1
6.1
To come together and form one clear, organized whole
1
8.4
To join together to form a mass or cluster
To join living stems or roots of two plants by bending them so they grow together
To join a part of one plant, like a stem or branch, to another so they grow together
To join by growing together so two parts become one
Growing or joining together to form a single whole
Coming together to form one thing, like rivers or ideas
Antonyms
How Joined
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to join or unite by growing so separate parts become one' is directly compositional from 'grow' (to increase in size or fuse by growth) + 'together' (in close proximity). This is a literal, non-idiomatic sense common across languages and easily predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The phrase grow together comes from the image of two plants or broken bones that grow so close together they become one. That's why grow together is used to mean 'to join' or 'become one'.