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Grow (grō), v. i. [imp. Grew (grṳ); p. p. Grown (grōn); p. pr. & vb. n. Growing.] [AS. grōwan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. grōa, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. Green, Grass.]
1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
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2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
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Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles.
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Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak.
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3. To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, “rice grows in warm countries”.
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Where law faileth, error groweth. Gower.
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4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, “to grow pale”.
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For his mind
Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. Byron.
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5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
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Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. Shak.
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Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from.
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These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. A. Hamilton.
-- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children. -- To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells.
Syn. -- To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend.
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growing n. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.
Syn. -- growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
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growing adj.
1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]
Syn. -- increasing(prenominal), incremental.
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2. increasing in size or amount; as, “her growing popularity”.
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3. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
Syn. -- flourishing, thriving.
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4. p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, “growing plants”.
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