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grow verb (grew, grown, growing) 1 intrans said of a living thing: to develop into a larger more mature form. 2 tr & intr to increase, or allow (hair, nails, etc) to increase, in length. 3 intrans a to increase in size, intensity or extent; b to increase in size in a specified direction • grow upwards towards the light. 4 to cultivate (plants). 5 a to become ... gradually • Over the years they grew very lazy; b (usually grow to ...) to come gradually to (have a specified feeling) • grew to hate him. grow like Topsy 1 simply to grow, apparently from nothing
ETYMOLOGY: as Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin thought she did. 2 to grow in a random, indiscriminate, or unplanned way.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon growan.

grow from something to originate in it • The scheme grew from an idea they had at school.

grow into something 1 to develop and become (a specified form) • Tadpoles grow into frogs • grew into a talented writer. 2 to become big enough to wear (clothes that were originally too large).

grow on someone to gradually come to be liked by them.

grow out of something 1 to become too big to wear (clothes that were originally the right size). 2 to lose a liking for it, or the habit of doing it, with age • grew out of reading comics. 3 to originate in it • The plan grew out of an idea of mine.

grow together to become united by growth.

grow up 1 to become, or be in the process of becoming, an adult. 2 to behave in an adult way. 3 to come into existence; to develop.