Word Finder - grown

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To become larger, to increase in magnitude.

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Children grow quickly.

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To appear or sprout.

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A long tail began to grow from his backside.

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To develop, to mature.

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As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.

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To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

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Have you ever grown your hair before?

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To assume a condition or quality over time.

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The boy grew wise as he matured.

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To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

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Covered by growth; overgrown.

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What once was a farm was grown with trees.

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Of a person: adult.

She had grown soft in five years of city life.

Kelli's voice had grown softer.

Many of his poems are still read and loved by children as well as by grown up men and women.

Deidre crossed to him, unafraid of the creature whose appearance often made grown Immortals quake and grovel.

A grown woman playing in the hay with a lamb – all dressed up.

I forget you are all grown sometimes.

It wasn't something either of them wanted to do, but the situation had grown out of control.

The building sat amid a cluster of cottonwoods that had grown there for an old man's lifetime, while a weather-beaten barn stood off to the side, showing its tired age.

His features had grown dark and shuttered.

Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy.

It'd hit her on the spaceship ride home and had only grown deeper.

In this world, humans have grown fat, stopped walking, and fill their days with non-stop entertainment and food.

They had grown so close.

He'd watched Damian's birth here, grown up here, met Claire here.

That was why Petya had blushed and grown confused when Denisov asked him whether he could stay.

When you're riding an ATV you can cover more territory, and the animals have grown used to the sound of them.

In fact, no one slapped a warrior full grown, not even his father.

She looked towards their destination then back at the pillar of magic, which had grown thicker and had begun eating away at the earth around it.

For a moment his gaze ran over her face in that searching way she had grown accustomed to.

Since Prince Andrew had last seen him Kutuzov had grown still more corpulent, flaccid, and fat.

The huge, endless bivouac that had previously resounded with the crackling of campfires and the voices of many men had grown quiet, the red campfires were growing paler and dying down.

Katie had forgiven his inexperienced blundering, but as she had grown closer to Alex, she had drifted further from Carmen.

Second, some people will still want their food grown the old-fashioned way, just like how I buy heritage meats and heirloom seeds.

Before long they would be grown.

He'd found some level of peace, and he'd grown powerful enough to kill an Other.

Whatever the exchange between him and Xander meant, he'd showed how strong he'd grown.

Wheat is widely grown but the output is not large.

The pots in which these wonders of patient skill are grown have to be themselves fine specimens of the keramists craft, and as much as 200 is sometimes paid for a notably well trained tree.

He felt that he had grown up and matured very much.

He had grown, become rosier, had curly dark hair, and, when merry and laughing, quite unconsciously lifted the upper lip of his pretty little mouth just as the little princess used to do.

Like Jonny, he'd grown into what he was virtually overnight.

She'd buried them under the callus she'd grown around her emotions.

Pepper is grown in considerable quantities in the districts of Ha-Tien and Bien-Hoa, and sugarcanes, coffee, cotton, tobacco and jute are also produced.

The plants are grown in the stove till the flowering period, when they may be removed to the greenhouse.

Equally disastrous are those climatic or seasonal changes which involve temperatures in themselves not excessive but in wrong sequence; how many more useful plants could be grown in the open in the United Kingdom if the deceptively mild springs were not so often followed by frosts in May and June!

Trade makes it possible to work mineral resources in localities where food can only be grown with great pope a u.

Albury is the centre of a sheeprearing and agricultural district; grapes, cereals and tobacco are largely grown, and the wine produced here is held in high repute throughout Australia.

The tradition, as in the case of the Targums, was again twofold; that which had grown up in the Palestinian Schools and that of Babylonia.

A variety of oil-bearing plants and green fodder, as also cotton, hemp, flax and poppies, are grown.

Cotton is grown in the vicinity, and is woven by the women into fabrics, which find a ready sale among the pagan tribes of the mountains.

Fruits in great variety are grown in the valley and foothills.

A pueblo or villa called Branciforte, one of the least important of the Spanish settlements (now a suburb of Santa Cruz), was founded in the vicinity in 1797, and before the American conquest was merged with the settlement that had grown up about the mission.

By the time it began the freebooters had grown into princes.

Once strongly fortified, it is now surrounded by wide boulevards, and new quarters have grown up on its outskirts.

In 1885 Uruguay imported most of her breadstuffs; now not only is wheat grown in sufficient quantities to meet the local demand, but a surplus (about 20,000 metric tons in 1908-9) is annually available for export.

From 1847, when the first railway entered the city, Indianapolis has steadily grown in importance as a railway centre.

The plebs, like the English commons, contained families differing widely in rank and social position, among them those families which, as soon as an artificial barrier broke down, joined with the patricians to form the new older settlement, a nobility which had once been the whole people, was gradually shorn of all exclusive privilege, and driven to share equal rights with a new people which had grown up around it.

Such hints as we have, while they set before us, just as at Rome, a state of things in which small landed proprietors are burthened with debt, also set before us the Attic demos as, largely at least, a body of various origins which had grown up in the city.

The products of the province are tea (the best quality of which is grown at Gan-hwa and the greatest quantity at Ping-kiang), hemp, cotton, rice, paper, tobacco, tea-oil and coal.