grow

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To get bigger in size over time, as living things do naturally.

   Children grow very quickly in their first year.

2. 2
   verb

   To increase in amount, number, or strength.

   The city's population has grown rapidly.

3. 3
   verb

   To plant and care for plants so that they develop.

   He grows vegetables in his back garden.

4. 4
   verb

   To develop and become more mature as a person.

   She has really grown since starting her new job.

Multiword verbs with grow

• grow apart Phrasal verb A1

  to become less close in a personal relationship over time

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Simplified etymology

Grow is an Old English word descended from the same root as grass and green.

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”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch groeien (“to grow”), German Low German grojen (“to green; thrive; take hold; flourish”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gro (“to grow”), Faroese grógva (“to grow”), Icelandic gróa (“to grow”); also Latin grāmen (“grass, turf; herb, plant”), herba (“grass, herbage; weeds; plant”), Ukrainian гря́ний (hrj…

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