grow: signification et définitions

To increase in size by a natural process.

To expand; gain: The business grew under new owners.

To increase in amount or degree; intensify: The suspense grew.

To develop and reach maturity.

To be capable of growth; thrive: a plant that grows in shade.

To become attached by or as if by the process of growth: tree trunks that had grown together.

To come into existence from a source; spring up: love that grew from friendship.

To come to be by a gradual process or by degrees; become: grow angry; grow closer.

To cause to grow; raise: grow tulips.

To allow (something) to develop or increase by a natural process: grow a beard.

Usage Problem To cause to increase or expand by concerted effort: strategies that grew the family business.

grow into To develop so as to become: A boy grows into a man.

grow into To develop or change so as to fit: She grew into her job. He grew into the relationship slowly.

on To become gradually more evident to: A feeling of distrust grew on me.

on To become gradually more pleasurable or acceptable to: a taste that grows on a person.

grow up To become an adult.

grow out of To develop or come into existence from: an article that grew out of a few scribbled notes.