Grow

Verb

 * 1)  To become bigger.
 * Children grow quickly.
 * 1)  To appear or sprout.
 * Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
 * A long tail began to grow from his backside.
 * 1)  To cause something to become bigger, especially cultivate plants.
 * He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
 * 1)  To assume a condition or quality, usually a positive one.
 * The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
 * The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.

Antonyms

 * shrink

Derived terms

 * grow on
 * grow old
 * grow out of
 * grown-up
 * grow up
 * growed
 * grower
 * growth
 * growing pains
 * growing point
 * outgrow
 * overgrow

Adverbs for Grow
tremendously; luxuriously; abundantly; proportionately; sensibly; vigorously; culturally; inevitably; formidably; abnormally; densely; miraculously; infinitely; ulcerously; wantonly; pendulously; phenomenally; intellectually; malignantly; tropically; vernally; spiritually.

Thesaurus
accrue, accumulate, advance, age, appreciate, arise, attain majority, balloon, be changed, be converted into, bear fruit, become, bloat, bloom, blossom, boom, breed, brew, broaden, bud, burgeon, burst forth, care for, carve, chisel, come, come of age, come over, come to be, come to maturity, convert, crescendo, crop, cultivate, culture, develop, dryfarm, enlarge, evolute, evolve, expand, extract, farm, fatten, feed, fledge, flourish, flower, foster, fructify, gain, gain strength, garden, gather, gemmate, germinate, get, get ahead, get to be, go, go up, grow rank, grow up, harvest, hatch, hypertrophy, increase, intensify, issue, keep, leaf, leaf out, leave, leave the nest, lengthen, luxuriate, machine, maturate, mature, mellow, mill, mine, mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse, nurture, originate, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, plant, process, procreate, produce, progress, proliferate, propagate, prosper, pullulate, pump, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, raise, ranch, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, rear, refine, reproduce, riot, ripe, ripen, rise, rise up, root, run, run up, season, settle down, sharecrop, shoot, shoot up, smelt, snowball, sow, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stem, strengthen, strike root, swell, take root, temper, tend, thicken, thrive, toga virilis, tower, turn, turn into, upgrow, uprise, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax, widen

Etymology
growan:, from (compare Dutch groeien:, Old Norse gróa:), from. Related to grass, green.

Translations

 * Arabic: نمى
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: böyümək
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 生长,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, udvikle sig
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kreski
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ingrossarsi, svilupparsi


 * Japanese: 成長する, 生長する,  育つ,  生える,
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: گه‌وره‌بوون
 * Latin:, alesco, alo, adolesco, grandesco
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: crescer
 * Russian:, вырастать ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs, cinn
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: büyümek
 * Volapük: glofön


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:, gro, udvikle sig
 * Dutch:, (ont)spruiten
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌رچوون


 * Portuguese: crescer
 * Russian:, вырастать ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: մեծացնել, աճեցնել
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: doen ; (cultivate:) telen,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , növeszt
 * Italian:, crescere
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ڕواندن


 * Latin: grandesco
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: растить, выращивать ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: odla


 * Armenian:
 * Italian: diventare, apparire


 * Scottish Gaelic: fàs


 * : 长 (zhăng)
 * : croître, pousser
 * : vaxa, spretta, aukast
 * : kreskar
 * : tumbuh, berkembang
 * : 成長する (せいちょうする, seichō-suru)
 * : 기르다 (gireuda), 자라다 (jarada), 성장하다 (成長하다, seongjang-hada)
 * : lēodan (2)
 * : crecer