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Grown

adjective

1.

(of animals) fully developed. Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup. "A grown woman"

Grow

verb

(past grew; past part. grown ; pres. part. growing)

1.

Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become. Synonym: turn. "She grew angry"

2.

Become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain. "Her business grew fast"

3.

Increase in size by natural process. "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees" , "Her hair doesn't grow much anymore"

4.

Cause to grow or develop.

5.

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation. Synonyms: maturate, mature. "The child grew fast"

6.

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7.

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. Synonyms: farm, produce, raise. "They produce good ham in Parma" , "We grow wheat here" , "We raise hogs here"

8.

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes). Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce. "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"

9.

Grow emotionally or mature. Synonym: develop. "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"

10.

Become attached by or as if by the process of growth.

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"Grown" Quotes from Famous Books

... man for miles around, ever since she was grown up. She doesn't like any of them." Clemency looked at James with sudden concern. "I am going to tell you something," she said, "even if it is rather betraying confidence. I think I ought to. Annie told me she had taken a great dislike to you, ...

— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... king. It was Hyperion to a satyr. Was it not as impossible that Mary should not love the one, as that she should love the other? Frank's offer of his affections had at first probably been but a boyish ebullition of feeling; but if it should now be, that this had grown into a manly and disinterested love, how could Mary remain unmoved? What could her heart want more, better, more beautiful, more rich than such a love as his? Was he not personally all that a girl could like? Were not his disposition, mind, character, acquirements, all such as women most ...

— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... the inscription that she has presented it to Gloriani. So if you'd like to glance at it—!" And the young Lord, in the pride of his association with the eminent thing, held it out to Berridge as artlessly as if it had been a striking natural specimen of some sort, a rosy round apple grown in his own orchard, or an exceptional precious stone, to be admired for its weight and lustre. Berridge accepted the offer mechanically—relieved at the prompt fading of his worst fear, yet feeling in himself a ...

— The Finer Grain • Henry James

... first, while the other writer's growth is the most remarkable thing about him. It is precisely the same Mr. Kipling who is now in the magazines that was writing some years ago in India (and a rare good Mr. Kipling too), but the Mr. Quiller-Couch of to-day is the Quiller-Couch of "Dead Man's Rock" grown out of recognition. To compare their styles is really to compare the men. Mr. Kipling's is the more startling, the stronger (as yet), and the more mannered. Mark Twain, it appears, said he reads Mr. Kipling ...

— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch

... The others had grown tired of looking, and were gone. Captain Burrows and myself were the only ones that saw ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

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