Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), v. i. [imp. Grew (gr[udd]); p. p. Grown
    (gr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Growing}.] [AS. gr[=o]wan; akin
   to D. groeijen, Icel. gr[=o]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.
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            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 \Grow\ (gr[=o]), 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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	grow
     v 1: pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property
          or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She
          grew angry" [syn: turn]
     2: become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The
        problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast"
     3: increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow
        here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"
     4: cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his
        backyard"
     5: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured
        fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate]
     6: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious
        movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang
        up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a
        short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate,
         arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up]
     7: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means
        of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
        great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We
        grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: raise, farm,
         produce]
     8: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and
        attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
        abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
        "Well-developed breasts" [syn: develop, produce, get,
         acquire]
     9: grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully
        in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp,
        the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his
        old adolescent behavior" [syn: develop]
     10: become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The
         tree trunks had grown together"
     [also: grown, grew]

	

	156 Moby Thesaurus words for "grow":
   accrue, accumulate, advance, age, appreciate, arise,
   attain majority, balloon, be changed, be converted into,
   bear fruit, become, bloat, bloom, blossom, boom, breed, brew,
   broaden, bud, burgeon, burst forth, care for, carve, chisel, come,
   come of age, come over, come to be, come to maturity, convert,
   crescendo, crop, cultivate, culture, develop, dryfarm, enlarge,
   evolute, evolve, expand, extract, farm, fatten, feed, fledge,
   flourish, flower, foster, fructify, gain, gain strength, garden,
   gather, gemmate, germinate, get, get ahead, get to be, go, go up,
   grow rank, grow up, harvest, hatch, hypertrophy, increase,
   intensify, issue, keep, leaf, leaf out, leave, leave the nest,
   lengthen, luxuriate, machine, maturate, mature, mellow, mill, mine,
   mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse, nurture, originate, outgrow,
   overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, plant, process, procreate,
   produce, progress, proliferate, propagate, prosper, pullulate,
   pump, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, raise, ranch,
   reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, rear, refine,
   reproduce, riot, ripe, ripen, rise, rise up, root, run, run up,
   season, settle down, sharecrop, shoot, shoot up, smelt, snowball,
   sow, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stem, strengthen,
   strike root, swell, take root, temper, tend, thicken, thrive,
   toga virilis, tower, turn, turn into, upgrow, uprise, upshoot,
   upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax, widen