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G0288000 (grō)v. grew (gro͞o), grown (grōn), grow·ing, grows v.intr.1. To increase in size by a natural process.2. a. To expand; gain: The business grew under new owners.b. To increase in amount or degree; intensify: The suspense grew.3. To develop and reach maturity.4. To be capable of growth; thrive: a plant that grows in shade.5. To become attached by or as if by the process of growth: tree trunks that had grown together.6. To come into existence from a source; spring up: love that grew from friendship.7. To come to be by a gradual process or by degrees; become: grow angry; grow closer.v.tr.1. To cause to grow; raise: grow tulips.2. To allow (something) to develop or increase by a natural process: grow a beard.3. Usage Problem To cause to increase or expand by concerted effort: strategies that grew the family business.Phrasal Verbs: grow into1. To develop so as to become: A boy grows into a man.2. To develop or change so as to fit: She grew into her job. He grew into the relationship slowly. grow on (or upon)1. To become gradually more evident to: A feeling of distrust grew on me.2. To become gradually more pleasurable or acceptable to: a taste that grows on a person. grow up To become an adult.Idiom: grow out of To develop or come into existence from: an article that grew out of a few scribbled notes.

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[Middle English growen, from Old English grōwan; see ghrē- in Indo-European roots.]

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grow′er n.grow′ing·ly adv.Usage Note: Grow is most often used as an intransitive verb, as in The corn grew fast or Our business has been growing steadily for 10 years. This use dates back to the Middle Ages. In the 1700s, a transitive sense arose with the meaning "to produce or cultivate," as in We grow corn in our garden. Then, starting in the late 1900s, people began to use grow with a nonliving thing or even an abstraction as the direct object, often in the context of politics or business, as in One of our key strategies is to grow our business by increasing the number of clients. This trend was widely criticized. In 1992, only 20 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the sentence above, and only 48 percent accepted We've got to grow our way out of this recession. These usages remain common, however, and resistance to them has lessened: in 2014, 60 percent of the Panel accepted the grow our business sentence, and 65 percent accepted the grow our way out of the recession sentence. But Panelists strongly frown upon the phrase grow down, probably because it seems oxymoronic: 96 percent of the Panel found it unacceptable.

growing

(ˈɡrəʊɪŋ) adj1. increasing. See also fast-growing2. getting bigger because of natural growth

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Noun	1.	growing - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, developmentculture - (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish"biological science, biology - the science that studies living organismsamelogenesis - the developmental process of forming tooth enamelangiogenesis - the formation of new blood vesselsapposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of materialauxesis - growth from increase in cell size without cell divisionanthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, efflorescence - the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossomscaenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis - introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)cohesion - (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)cultivation - the process of fostering the growth of something; "the cultivation of bees for honey"cytogenesis, cytogeny - the origin and development and variation of cellsfoliation, leafing - (botany) the process of forming leavesfructification - the bearing of fruitgametogenesis - the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosisgastrulation - the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cellsgermination, sprouting - the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to growhabit - the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal); "a shrub of spreading habit"infructescence - the fruiting stage of the inflorescenceintussusception - (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell walljuvenescence - the process of growing into a youthlife cycle - the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be producedmasculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization - the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)morphogenesis - differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism)myelinisation, myelinization - the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiberneurogenesis - the development of nerve tissuesbiological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organismspalingenesis, recapitulation - emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or speciesproliferation - growth by the rapid multiplication of partspsychogenesis - a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mindpsychogenesis - the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factorspsychomotor development - progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activitiespsychosexual development - (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stagerooting - the process of putting forth roots and beginning to growsuppression - the failure to develop some part or organdentition, odontiasis, teething - the eruption through the gums of baby teethteratogenesis - the development of defects in an embryovegetation - the process of growth in plantsisometry - the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same
	2.	growing - (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten stateproduction - the act or process of producing something; "Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous"; "the production of white blood cells"electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devicesepitaxy - growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate
Adj.	1.	growing - relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather"

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