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.

Common collocations

• growing fear Adjective + noun

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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