v. 25B6; verb
the boys had grown : GET BIGGER, get taller, get larger, increase in size.
sales and profits continue to grow : INCREASE, swell, multiply, snowball, mushroom, balloon, build up, mount up, pile up; informal skyrocket.
flowers grew among the rocks : SPROUT, germinate, shoot up, spring up, develop, bud, burst forth, bloom, flourish, thrive, run riot.
he grew vegetables : CULTIVATE, produce, propagate, raise, rear, nurture, tend; farm.
the family business grew : EXPAND, extend, develop, progress, make progress; flourish, thrive, burgeon, prosper, succeed, boom.
the fable grew from an ancient Indian source : ORIGINATE, stem, spring, arise, emerge, issue; develop, evolve.
Leonora grew bored : BECOME, get, turn, begin to feel.
shrink, decline.