Antonyms for grow
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : groh |
| Phonetic Transcription : groÊŠ |
Definition of grow
Origin :- Old English growan (of plants) "to grow, flourish, increase, develop, get bigger" (class VII strong verb; past tense greow, past participle growen), from Proto-Germanic *gro- (cf. Old Norse groa, Old Frisian groia, Dutch groeien, Old High German gruoen), from PIE root *ghre- (see grass). Applied in Middle English to human beings (c.1300) and animals (early 15c.) and their parts, supplanting Old English weaxan (see wax (v.)).
- Have you ever heard anything about God, Topsy? ... Do you know who made you?" "Nobody, as I knows on," said the child. ... "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me." [Harriet B. Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1851]
- verb become larger, evolve
- It looks as if the dew was on it; but the tears will not make it grow again—will they?
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- "You grow dearer every minute," she assured them on her last night at home.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- If you grow up and have muscles like them, you can call yourself a man.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- My land would not grow corn enough, or good enough for my necessity.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Perhaps some day I might take after her and grow equally well-favoured.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- It was the year my tusks began to grow that I first saw him.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- The stranger seemed to grow impatient at these remonstrances.
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I have felt them already, and expect to feel them more, as I grow older.
- Extract from : « The Paradise of Children » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The need of the teacher will not grow less as the century goes on.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
Synonyms for grow
- abound
- advance
- age
- amplify
- arise
- augment
- become
- branch out
- breed
- build
- burgeon
- burst forth
- come
- come to be
- cultivate
- develop
- dilate
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- fill out
- flourish
- gain
- germinate
- get bigger
- get taller
- heighten
- increase
- issue
- luxuriate
- maturate
- mature
- mount
- multiply
- originate
- pop up
- produce
- propagate
- pullulate
- raise
- ripen
- rise
- shoot
- spread
- spring up
- sprout
- stem
- stretch
- swell
- thicken
- thrive
- turn
- vegetate
- wax
- widen
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