adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grown fond of
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I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave.
grown...fond of
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Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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Two methods can be used, both requiring a healthy and fully grown leaf from your selected plant.
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Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted, and were found laid out in the direction of the blast.
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A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
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The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.
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It is the largest living bird - a fully grown male weighing 140 kilograms and reaching 2.5 metres in height.
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I would like to put a fully grown male in with her.
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A kitten requires three times more nourishment, relative to body weight, than a fully grown cat.
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All the corpses he examined were those of adults - of fully grown men.
organically
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A farming ideal too, organically grown produce, means the family are self sufficient.
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Fans of organic wine will be pleased to see two new choices made from organically grown grapes.
■ NOUN
man
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Not one grown man , aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
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Take Reg Holdsworth for instance: grown men don't act so stupid.
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Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men .
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The Hall of Power - where little boys and grown men delight in pressing buttons - is vastly popular.
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He was a grown man , in full possession of his civil rights.
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And there's a grown man sitting on the floor over there.
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People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.
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He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
woman
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She hunted herself, putting aside all those pictures in which she appeared - not as child but as a grown woman .
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There's a quasi-religious, Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer.
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A fully grown woman , the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
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People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.