(grows, growing, grew, grown)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
We stop growing at maturity.
VERB: V
2.
If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.
The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
VERB: V
3.
If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
I always grow a few red onions...
VERB: V n
4.
When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.
Then the hair began to grow again and I felt terrific.
VERB: V
5.
If someone grows their hair, or grows a beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can also grow your nails.
I'd better start growing my hair.
VERB: V n
6.
If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
They began to grow as persons.
VERB: V
7.
You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
He grew to love his work.
V-LINK: V adj, V to-inf
8.
If an amount, feeling, or problem grows, it becomes greater or more intense.
Opposition grew and the government agreed to negotiate.
...a growing number of immigrants.
VERB: V, V-ing
9.
If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
The boys grew into men...
This political row threatens to grow into a full blown crisis.
VERB: V into n, V into n
10.
If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.
The idea for this book grew out of conversations with Philippa Brewster.
VERB: V out of n
11.
If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance. (BUSINESS)
The economy continues to grow.
...a fast growing business.
VERB: V, V-ing
12.
If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance. (BUSINESS)
To grow the business, he needs to develop management expertise and innovation across his team.
VERB: V n
13.
If a crystal grows, or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.
...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
We tried to grow some copper sulphate crystals with our children.
VERB: V, V n
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