transcription, транскрипция: [ groʊ ]
( grows, growing, grew, grown)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
When people, animals, and plants grow , they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
We stop growing at maturity.
VERB : V
2.
If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.
The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
VERB : V
3.
If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
I always grow a few red onions...
VERB : V n
4.
When someone’s hair grows , it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow .
Then the hair began to grow again and I felt terrific.
VERB : V
5.
If someone grows their hair, or grows a beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can also grow your nails.
I’d better start growing my hair.
VERB : V n
6.
If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
They began to grow as persons.
VERB : V
7.
You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
He grew to love his work.
V-LINK : V adj , V to-inf
8.
If an amount, feeling, or problem grows , it becomes greater or more intense.
Opposition grew and the government agreed to negotiate.
...a growing number of immigrants.
VERB : V , V-ing
9.
If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
The boys grew into men...
This political row threatens to grow into a full blown crisis.
VERB : V into n , V into n
10.
If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.
The idea for this book grew out of conversations with Philippa Brewster.
VERB : V out of n
11.
If the economy or a business grows , it increases in wealth, size, or importance. ( BUSINESS )
The economy continues to grow.
...a fast growing business.
VERB : V , V-ing
12.
If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance. ( BUSINESS )
To grow the business, he needs to develop management expertise and innovation across his team.
VERB : V n
13.
If a crystal grows , or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.
...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
We tried to grow some copper sulphate crystals with our children.
VERB : V , V n
14.
see also grown