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Grow
GROW, v.i. pret. grew; pp. grown. [L. cresco.]
1. To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man.
He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Psa 104.
2. To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates.
3. To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil.
4. To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation.
5. To advance; to extend. His reputation is growing.
6. To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.
7. To come forward; to advance. [Not much used.]
Winter began to grow fast on.
8. To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich.
9. To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.
10. To accrue; to come.
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra 4.
11. To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest.
To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem.
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.
To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity.
To grow up,
To grow together, To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.
Grow, signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less.
Marriages grow less frequent.
[To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.]
GROW, v.t. To produce; to raise; as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. [This is a modern abusive use of grow, but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years, we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.]
grow appears in definitions for these words:
Abada Abagun Abib Abolish Accelerate Accession Accord Accretion Accretive Accrue Accruing Accumulate Acorn Acorus Act Aculeate Addle Adhere Adhesion Adnascent Adnata Adnate Adolescence Adolescent Adult Advance Afore Agalloch Agaric Aggeneration Agglomerate Agreeably Albescent Albugo Alder Aliment Alimental Alligator Alogotrophy Alpine Ameliorate Amend Amentaceous Amomum Amorpha Analogy Angelic Anhima Aninga Anise Annotta Annual Antiquated Apace Apophysis Appall Appellative Aquatic Arboreous Arborescence Archil Arefaction Art Artificial Ash Asphyxy Attenuated Augment Autochthon Awlwort Balm Balsam Bamboo Banana Barb Barbadoes-cherry Barbel Bass Bate Battel Batten Bead-tree Bean Beard Bearing-cloth Bedwarf Beech Beef Beginning Bell Belling Belone Benjamin Betony Bifarious Binate Bind Blacken Blacksmith Blain Blast Blasted Bleach Blight Bloat Bloated Bloom Blue-bottle Bog Bog-ore Bonito Bramblebush Branch-leaf Brazil Bread-room Breed Brighten Bristle Broaden Brow Buckthorn Bud Buffeting Bulbous Bullock Bulrush Bunch Bunchiness Bunchy Burnish Bush Bushel Bustard But Butter-burr Butterwort Button-wood Cabbage Cabbage-tree Cacao Calambac Calefy Call Callus Caltrop Campestral Camphor Camphor-tree Can Cancerate Canceration Candicant Candoc Canescent Canker Capellet Caper Capillament Capitate Cardamom Carline-thistle Carnify Carob Carp Cashew-nut Castor-oil Cat-tail Catling Cauline Cedar Celandine Celtis Centiped Chard Chaste-tree Cheer Cherish Chess Chestnut-tree Chili Choke Cinnamon Clarify Clarifying Clavated Claw Climax Cloud Clove Clover Club-shaped Cluster Clustering Clustery Coal-fish Coalesce Coalescence Coalescing Cob Cockle Cocoa Coffee Colliquable Comb Compact Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concretion Concrew Condense Confluent Congeal Conger Conglomerate Connascence Connate Connatural Consenescence Consenescency Consider Consistency Consolidate Convalescence Convalescency Copaiba Copal Coppice Coralline Cork Corn Cornclad Cornfield Cornflower Cotton Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Could Courage Cranberry Cream Creep Crescent Crescive Cress Crest Crocodile Cronet Crop Cultivate Cultivation Cultivator Culture Custard-apple Darken Dawn Dawning Decrease Decussated Degeneracy Degenerate Degeneration Demersed Deteriorate Deterioration Dig Disposition Disseminate Dissemination Dog-cabbage Doggish Dogtooth Dogwood-tree Double-headed Double-tongued Droop Drouth Dry Duck-meat Ducks-meat Dusk Dwarf Earliness Early Ebony-tree Eel Effeminate Effemination Elbow Elephant Enate Enhance Enlarge Epiphysis Eradicate Erect Excandescence Excrescence Excrescent Expedite Extenuation Extrafoliaceous Fade Fascicled Fat Fatten Fattening Feed Feel Fen Fenny Fester Festering Fethered Fetlock Feverfew Fig-marigold Fig-tree Fill Filling Fireblast Flaccidness Flagging Flat Flatten Fleece Fling Flixweed Flourish Flush Fluvial Fog Foment Food Force Forelock Forest Forktail Forward Forwarding Foster Fresh Freshen Frigid Frush Full-grown Fungous Fungus Fur Furrowweed Fustic Gad Gain Galban Garden-stuff Gare Gather Give Glass Glutton Gnar Gnash Gosling Grampus Graze Grazed Grazer Grazing Green Grew Grove Grow Grower Growl Grown Growth Growthead Grumble Grumbling Habit Hair Halibut Hardly Haw Hawthorn Head Heal Heat Herbescent Hidebound High-grown Hinder Holly Hooting Hopbind Horn Hotspur Hurt Huso Hydrangea Imbrown Imperceptible Implant Improvable Improve Improvement Improving Incalescence Incalescent Incapability Incarnative Incorporate Incrassating Increase Increased Increasing Increment Indurate Induration Inflame Infusion Ingrafted Inoculate Insensible Instead Intercession Intrafoliaceous Inveterate Ipecacuanha Issue Jack Join Kedlack Knit Knitting Know L Ladanum Languish Lapidescent Lard Laterifolious Law Lay Layer Lemon Lengthen Life Ling Live Logwood Lower Luce Luck Luxuriance Luxuriant Luxuriantly Luxuriate Luxuriation Luxurious Luxury Mahogany Malapert Man Manatus Manchineel Mandrake Mane Mangostan Mangrove Mannish Mantle Mature Meliorate Mend Milker Misletoe Moose Morse Moss Motion Motionless Mountain Multiply Multiplying Mumble Mushroom Must Mustaches Musty Nail Narwal Nascent Nasicornous Natural Naturally Neck Negboor Nickar-tree Nigrescent Nip Nomad Nomadize Nothing Nourish Nourished Nourishing Nourishment Nurse Nurser Nursery Nurture Nutmeg Nutrient Nutriment Nutrition Nutritious Oak Ogganition Old Oliban Olive Once Opobalsam Opposite Orang-outang Orange Organic Osmund Osselet Out Outgrow Overgrow Overgrowth Overrun Ox Pall Palm-tree Palmetto Papaw Papillary Pappus Parasite Parasitic Parsley Pearl Peduncular Pedunculate Petiolar Petioled Pick Pimento Pine Pip Pissabed Pist Pistillaceous Plaise Plane-tree Plant Plantation Planted Plumous Plump Polite Pome Pomme Poorly Poppy Precociousness Predial Prickle Process Prodigally Profit Progress Prolifical Promote Prosper Prospering Prune Pubes Pubescence Purify Quatern Quickset Quitch-grass Racemous Raise Rameous Rampancy Rampant Rancid Ranging Rankle Rankly Rankness Rapid Rapidity Rapidly Rapture Raspberry Ratan Ratsbaned Reach Reate Receptacular Recover Recrudescence Recrudescent Redden Reflection Relent Relish Remain Rescue Rhinoceros Ric Rickets Ring-bolt Ripe Ripen Ripeness Rise Roguery Rokambole Ront Root Rooting Rosary Rose Rose-wood Rosemary Roughen Round Rowen Rubescent Rufescent Ruffle Run Salmon Salt Samphire Sanders Sarcotic Savagery Sawer Scallop Scorpion Scrubbed Scurvy-grass Sea-devil Sea-grass Sea-navelwort Sea-plant Sea-shell Sea-weed Sea-wolf Sea-wormwood Season Secondary Sedge Seed Seedy Senescence Set Shark Sharpen Shelter Shoot Sickly Silk Sitfast Slake Sleek Slow Slowness Snakeroot Snakewood Snarl Snarler Snarling So Sole Sow-thistle Spindle Spine Spinet Spontaneous Spring Springing Sprout Spunge Stage Staminiferous Stand Star-apple Stationary Stern Stickle-back Stiff Stiffen Stint Stipular Storax Straggle Straw Strengthen Strong Stunt Stunted Stunting Stupid Submarine Submerse Subnascent Sufferance Sum Summed Supercrescence Supercrescent Superexcrescence Superfetation Superplant Suppliant Supra-axillary Swallow-wort Sweinmote Swelling Symphysis Take Tallow Tare Teething Terminal Tern Ternate Thin Thirdings Thistle Thorn Thrift Thrifty Thrive Thriving Thrivingness Throdden Tiffany Tillage Toad-stool Tolling Tooth Toughen Tragacanth Train Training Transplantation Tree Tufted Tufty Tumor Turbith Turpentine-tree Twofold Umbellate Umbilical Umbra Undawning Underbrush Undergrowth Undermine Understand Underwood Unfledged Ungenial Unhealthy Unicorn Unilateral Union Unite United Uniting Unplanted Unthrifty Unwasting Up Upgrow Vegetability Vegetable Vegetate Vegetating Vegetation Vegetative Vegetativeness Verdant Vert Verticillate Veteran Vignette Wall-moss Walnut Wanton Watchful Water-cress Water-melon Water-tath Wattle Wax Waxing Weed Weeding Weeping-willow Wen Wex Whirled Whisker White-campion White-darnel White-film White-horse-fish Whiten Whitewood Wicker Widen Wild Without Woad Woman Wood-land Wool Wort Yam Yapon Yarr Young Zedoary
Abada Abagun Abib Abolish Accelerate Accession Accord Accretion Accretive Accrue Accruing Accumulate Acorn Acorus Act Aculeate Addle Adhere Adhesion Adnascent Adnata Adnate Adolescence Adolescent Adult Advance Afore Agalloch Agaric Aggeneration Agglomerate Agreeably Albescent Albugo Alder Aliment Alimental Alligator Alogotrophy Alpine Ameliorate Amend Amentaceous Amomum Amorpha Analogy Angelic Anhima Aninga Anise Annotta Annual Antiquated Apace Apophysis Appall Appellative Aquatic Arboreous Arborescence Archil Arefaction Art Artificial Ash Asphyxy Attenuated Augment Autochthon Awlwort Balm Balsam Bamboo Banana Barb Barbadoes-cherry Barbel Bass Bate Battel Batten Bead-tree Bean Beard Bearing-cloth Bedwarf Beech Beef Beginning Bell Belling Belone Benjamin Betony Bifarious Binate Bind Blacken Blacksmith Blain Blast Blasted Bleach Blight Bloat Bloated Bloom Blue-bottle Bog Bog-ore Bonito Bramblebush Branch-leaf Brazil Bread-room Breed Brighten Bristle Broaden Brow Buckthorn Bud Buffeting Bulbous Bullock Bulrush Bunch Bunchiness Bunchy Burnish Bush Bushel Bustard But Butter-burr Butterwort Button-wood Cabbage Cabbage-tree Cacao Calambac Calefy Call Callus Caltrop Campestral Camphor Camphor-tree Can Cancerate Canceration Candicant Candoc Canescent Canker Capellet Caper Capillament Capitate Cardamom Carline-thistle Carnify Carob Carp Cashew-nut Castor-oil Cat-tail Catling Cauline Cedar Celandine Celtis Centiped Chard Chaste-tree Cheer Cherish Chess Chestnut-tree Chili Choke Cinnamon Clarify Clarifying Clavated Claw Climax Cloud Clove Clover Club-shaped Cluster Clustering Clustery Coal-fish Coalesce Coalescence Coalescing Cob Cockle Cocoa Coffee Colliquable Comb Compact Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concretion Concrew Condense Confluent Congeal Conger Conglomerate Connascence Connate Connatural Consenescence Consenescency Consider Consistency Consolidate Convalescence Convalescency Copaiba Copal Coppice Coralline Cork Corn Cornclad Cornfield Cornflower Cotton Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Could Courage Cranberry Cream Creep Crescent Crescive Cress Crest Crocodile Cronet Crop Cultivate Cultivation Cultivator Culture Custard-apple Darken Dawn Dawning Decrease Decussated Degeneracy Degenerate Degeneration Demersed Deteriorate Deterioration Dig Disposition Disseminate Dissemination Dog-cabbage Doggish Dogtooth Dogwood-tree Double-headed Double-tongued Droop Drouth Dry Duck-meat Ducks-meat Dusk Dwarf Earliness Early Ebony-tree Eel Effeminate Effemination Elbow Elephant Enate Enhance Enlarge Epiphysis Eradicate Erect Excandescence Excrescence Excrescent Expedite Extenuation Extrafoliaceous Fade Fascicled Fat Fatten Fattening Feed Feel Fen Fenny Fester Festering Fethered Fetlock Feverfew Fig-marigold Fig-tree Fill Filling Fireblast Flaccidness Flagging Flat Flatten Fleece Fling Flixweed Flourish Flush Fluvial Fog Foment Food Force Forelock Forest Forktail Forward Forwarding Foster Fresh Freshen Frigid Frush Full-grown Fungous Fungus Fur Furrowweed Fustic Gad Gain Galban Garden-stuff Gare Gather Give Glass Glutton Gnar Gnash Gosling Grampus Graze Grazed Grazer Grazing Green Grew Grove Grow Grower Growl Grown Growth Growthead Grumble Grumbling Habit Hair Halibut Hardly Haw Hawthorn Head Heal Heat Herbescent Hidebound High-grown Hinder Holly Hooting Hopbind Horn Hotspur Hurt Huso Hydrangea Imbrown Imperceptible Implant Improvable Improve Improvement Improving Incalescence Incalescent Incapability Incarnative Incorporate Incrassating Increase Increased Increasing Increment Indurate Induration Inflame Infusion Ingrafted Inoculate Insensible Instead Intercession Intrafoliaceous Inveterate Ipecacuanha Issue Jack Join Kedlack Knit Knitting Know L Ladanum Languish Lapidescent Lard Laterifolious Law Lay Layer Lemon Lengthen Life Ling Live Logwood Lower Luce Luck Luxuriance Luxuriant Luxuriantly Luxuriate Luxuriation Luxurious Luxury Mahogany Malapert Man Manatus Manchineel Mandrake Mane Mangostan Mangrove Mannish Mantle Mature Meliorate Mend Milker Misletoe Moose Morse Moss Motion Motionless Mountain Multiply Multiplying Mumble Mushroom Must Mustaches Musty Nail Narwal Nascent Nasicornous Natural Naturally Neck Negboor Nickar-tree Nigrescent Nip Nomad Nomadize Nothing Nourish Nourished Nourishing Nourishment Nurse Nurser Nursery Nurture Nutmeg Nutrient Nutriment Nutrition Nutritious Oak Ogganition Old Oliban Olive Once Opobalsam Opposite Orang-outang Orange Organic Osmund Osselet Out Outgrow Overgrow Overgrowth Overrun Ox Pall Palm-tree Palmetto Papaw Papillary Pappus Parasite Parasitic Parsley Pearl Peduncular Pedunculate Petiolar Petioled Pick Pimento Pine Pip Pissabed Pist Pistillaceous Plaise Plane-tree Plant Plantation Planted Plumous Plump Polite Pome Pomme Poorly Poppy Precociousness Predial Prickle Process Prodigally Profit Progress Prolifical Promote Prosper Prospering Prune Pubes Pubescence Purify Quatern Quickset Quitch-grass Racemous Raise Rameous Rampancy Rampant Rancid Ranging Rankle Rankly Rankness Rapid Rapidity Rapidly Rapture Raspberry Ratan Ratsbaned Reach Reate Receptacular Recover Recrudescence Recrudescent Redden Reflection Relent Relish Remain Rescue Rhinoceros Ric Rickets Ring-bolt Ripe Ripen Ripeness Rise Roguery Rokambole Ront Root Rooting Rosary Rose Rose-wood Rosemary Roughen Round Rowen Rubescent Rufescent Ruffle Run Salmon Salt Samphire Sanders Sarcotic Savagery Sawer Scallop Scorpion Scrubbed Scurvy-grass Sea-devil Sea-grass Sea-navelwort Sea-plant Sea-shell Sea-weed Sea-wolf Sea-wormwood Season Secondary Sedge Seed Seedy Senescence Set Shark Sharpen Shelter Shoot Sickly Silk Sitfast Slake Sleek Slow Slowness Snakeroot Snakewood Snarl Snarler Snarling So Sole Sow-thistle Spindle Spine Spinet Spontaneous Spring Springing Sprout Spunge Stage Staminiferous Stand Star-apple Stationary Stern Stickle-back Stiff Stiffen Stint Stipular Storax Straggle Straw Strengthen Strong Stunt Stunted Stunting Stupid Submarine Submerse Subnascent Sufferance Sum Summed Supercrescence Supercrescent Superexcrescence Superfetation Superplant Suppliant Supra-axillary Swallow-wort Sweinmote Swelling Symphysis Take Tallow Tare Teething Terminal Tern Ternate Thin Thirdings Thistle Thorn Thrift Thrifty Thrive Thriving Thrivingness Throdden Tiffany Tillage Toad-stool Tolling Tooth Toughen Tragacanth Train Training Transplantation Tree Tufted Tufty Tumor Turbith Turpentine-tree Twofold Umbellate Umbilical Umbra Undawning Underbrush Undergrowth Undermine Understand Underwood Unfledged Ungenial Unhealthy Unicorn Unilateral Union Unite United Uniting Unplanted Unthrifty Unwasting Up Upgrow Vegetability Vegetable Vegetate Vegetating Vegetation Vegetative Vegetativeness Verdant Vert Verticillate Veteran Vignette Wall-moss Walnut Wanton Watchful Water-cress Water-melon Water-tath Wattle Wax Waxing Weed Weeding Weeping-willow Wen Wex Whirled Whisker White-campion White-darnel White-film White-horse-fish Whiten Whitewood Wicker Widen Wild Without Woad Woman Wood-land Wool Wort Yam Yapon Yarr Young Zedoary
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