Definition of grew

"grew" in the verb sense

1. turn, grow

pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute become

"The weather turned nasty"

"She grew angry"

2. grow

become larger, greater, or bigger expand or gain

"The problem grew too large for me"

"Her business grew fast"

3. grow

increase in size by natural process

"Corn doesn't grow here"

"In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"

"her hair doesn't grow much anymore"

4. grow

cause to grow or develop

"He grows vegetables in his backyard"

5. mature, maturate, grow

develop and reach maturity undergo maturation

"He matured fast"

"The child grew fast"

6. originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow

come into existence take on form or shape

"A new religious movement originated in that country"

"a love that sprang up from friendship"

"the idea for the book grew out of a short story"

"An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7. grow, raise, farm, produce

cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

"The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"

"They produce good ham in Parma"

"We grow wheat here"

"We raise hogs here"

8. grow, develop, produce, get, acquire

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes

"He grew a beard"

"The patient developed abdominal pains"

"I got funny spots all over my body"

"Well-developed breasts"

9. develop, grow

grow emotionally or mature

"The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"

"When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"

10. grow

become attached by or as if by the process of growth

"The tree trunks had grown together"

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Quotations for grew

He builded better than he knew -
The conscious stone to beauty grew. [ Emerson ]

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. [ Rogers ]

Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn. [ Byron ]

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. [ Pope ]

He left a name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale. [ Johnson ]

In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. [ Pope ]

When honour grew mercenary, money grew honourable. [ Proverb ]

In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, -
A mystical forewarning. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

He led on; but thoughts
Seem'd gathering round which troubled him. The veins
Grew visible upon his swarthy brow,
And his proud lip was press'd as if with pain.
He trod less firmly; and his restless eye
Glanc'd forward frequently, as if some ill
He dared not meet were there. [ Willis ]

While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew. [ Goldsmith ]

Our ancestors grew not great by hawking and hunting. [ Proverb ]

Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain. [ Moore ]

Then kissed me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the roots, that grew upon my lips. [ William Shakespeare ]

For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn it was that grew the more by reaping. [ William Shakespeare ]

All nations that grew great out of little or nothing did so merely by the public-mindedness of particular persons. [ South ]

Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. [ Karl Ottfried Muller ]

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius. [ Johnson ]

Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

grew in Scrabble®

The word grew is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters grew:

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grew in Words With Friends™

The word grew is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters grew:

GREW
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Words within the letters of grew

2 letter words in grew (2 words)

3 letter words in grew (1 word)

4 letter words in grew (1 word)

grew + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence grew

Words that start with grew (1 word)

Words with grew in them (1 word)

Words that end with grew (6 words)

Word Growth involving grew

Shorter words in grew

re

Longer words containing grew

misgrew

outgrew

overgrew

regrew

undergrew