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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grew \Grew\ (gr[udd]), imp. of {Grow}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grow \Grow\, v. i. [imp. {Grew}; p. p. {Grown ; p. pr & vb n. {Growing}.] [AS. grawan; akin to D. groeijen Icel. groa, Dan. groe, Sw gro. Cf {Green}, {Grass}.] 1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on --Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus --Shak. 3. To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as rice grows in warm countries. Where law faileth error groweth --Gower. 4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause to become as to grow pale. For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron. 5. To become attached of fixed; to adhere. Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. --Shak. {Growing cell}, or {Growing slide}, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. {Grown over}, covered with a growth. {To grow out of}, to issue from as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. --A. Hamilton. {To grow up}, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as grown up children.
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