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# grow

«grow» in Mova's school dictionary: **to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (grow, grows, grew, grown, growing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To grow is to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#m1)

2) To grow plants is to plant them and help them come up from the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#m2)

3) To grow can mean to increase in number or amount, like a town or savings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#m3)

4) To grow can mean to become, as in grow tired or grow dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#m4)

5) To grow up is to change from a child into an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

An increase over time (a plant grows 2 cm a week), or plants produced in a garden. In science: living things grow; seeds need water, light and warmth to grow; children grow taller each year. In stories: Jack's beanstalk grew up to the sky. Phrases: «grow up», «grow into», «grow out of», «grow bigger».

### examples

- The plant grows 3 cm each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x1)
- She grew 20 tomatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x2)
- The puppy grew 4 kilograms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x3)
- How tall will it grow in 5 weeks? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x4)
- I want to be a vet when I grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x5)
- It grew dark, so we went inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x6)
- The beanstalk grew taller than the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x7)
- My little brother grew out of his shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x8)
- All children, except one, grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/#x9)

### note

Growing adds; a fixed amount «each week» means repeated adding (rate × weeks), then add to the start height. Trap: do not forget the starting height. Irregular verb: grow, grew, grown (not «growed»).

### In the corpora

- [Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/7/)
- [It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/7/)
- [Most grown-ups keep their money in a bank account, and most of it is never seen as notes and coins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/0/)
- [Interest that grows on interest is called compound interest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/5/)
- [A bank statement lists everything that went in and out of an account, and grown-ups check it for mistakes and fraud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.