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verb
  1. 1
    if children or animals grow, they become taller or larger

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

    To become larger: grow, expand, swell, dilate, inflate, outgrow, mature, double, wax and wane, supersize... more
  2. 2
    if plants or trees grow, they develop and get larger or taller

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

    What plants can do: bear, bloom, blossom, bud, choke, climb, come out, come up, die back, fade... more
    1. a.
      if trees or plants grow somewhere, they exist there

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

      What plants can do: bear, bloom, blossom, bud, choke, climb, come out, come up, die back, fade... more
    2. b.
      if you grow plants, you take care of them and help them to develop

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

      Gardening: aerate, bed out, bonsai, compost, cross-fertilize, cross-pollinate, deadhead, drill, drill, feed... more
    3. c.
      if bacteria or cells grow, or if they are grown, they divide and increase in number

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

      Cell biology: cell, -celled, cell membrane, cellular, cell wall, chloroplast, culture, culture, culture medium, cytology... more
    4. d.
      if crystals grow, or if they are grown, they get bigger in size

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

      To increase, or to increase something: increase, add to, raise, go up, step up, double, multiply, soar, escalate, go through the roof... more
  3. 3
    if your hair or nails grow, they become longer

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

    To change the length of something: lengthen, stretch, shorten, elongate, cut, grow, extend, abbreviate, telescope, truncate... more
    1. a.
      if you grow your hair or nails, you let them become longer

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

      To change the length of something: lengthen, stretch, shorten, elongate, cut, grow, extend, abbreviate, telescope, truncate... more
  4. 4
    to increase in size

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

    To increase, or to increase something: increase, add to, raise, go up, step up, double, multiply, soar, escalate, go through the roof... more
  7. 7
    literary used for saying that someone or something gradually starts to have a feeling or quality

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of grow*

    Linking verbs: appear, be, become, come over, feel, form, get, go, grow, look... more

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