Grow
Grow (grō) , intransitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon grōwan; akin to Dutch groeijen, Icelandic grōa, Danish groe, Swedish gro. Compare 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.
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.
Grow (grō) , transitive verb
To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. — Macaulay