GROW
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Grow (gr&ō;), v. i. [imp. Grew (gr&usuml_;); p. p. Grown (gr&ō;n); p. pr. & vb. n. Growing.] [AS. gr&ō;wan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. gr&ō;a, 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.
[1913 Webster]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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Grow (gr&ō;), v. t. To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. Macaulay.
Syn. -- To raise; to cultivate. See Raise, v. t., 3.
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