Grow /(grō)/

imp. Grew; p. p. Grown; p. pr. & vb. n. Growing

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.

   Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.

3. To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

   Where law faileth, error groweth.

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.

5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

   Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.

   These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.

1. To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.