growverb
uk/ɡrəʊ/us/ɡroʊ/grew, growngrow verb (INCREASE)
A2 [ I or L or T ] to increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed:
B1 [ I or T ] If your hair or nails grow, or if you grow them, they become longer:
A2 [ I ] If a plant grows in a particular place, it exists and develops there:
A2 [ T ] If you grow a plant, you put it in the ground and take care of it, usually in order to sell it:
[ T ] to make a business bigger by increasing sales, employing more people, etc.:
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- Few plants grow in tundra regions.
- India grows tea for export.
- Complaints to the Banking Ombudsman grew by 50 percent last year.
- The thickness of the mulch will prevent weeds growing around the shrubs.
- Most of the produce sold in the market is grown by peasant farmers.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- multiply
- pile
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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grow verb (BECOME)
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- As people grow older, their faces acquire more character.
- As you grow older, your spine shortens by about an inch.
- She's becoming more and more irascible as she grows older.
- As the lights went down, the audience grew quiet.
- They had been travelling all day and the passengers were growing tired.
B2 to gradually become tired, old, calm, etc.:
to gradually start to do something:
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- fluid
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- swing
- transfigure
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
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