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  1. intransitive verb To increase in size by a natural process.
  2. intransitive verb To expand; gain: The business grew under new owners.
  3. intransitive verb To increase in amount or degree; intensify: The suspense grew.
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  • As the hair grows, the binding is lengthened also, and only about four or five inches are suffered to escape from this confinement, and are then frizzed and curled, like a mop or a poodle's coat. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • The older one grows, the more care one should take of oneself. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • As the body grows, the mind grows with it, and the childish mind of the child develops into the hasty, quickly-judging, half-informed, unbalanced youthful mind of the youth; with maturity of years comes maturity of mind, and body and mind are vigorous and in their prime. —  An Autobiography
  • "We have evidence that most of these types of marijuana grows are the work of drug organizations out of —  Examiner California Headlines
  • Over the past decade, the creative sector has grown at twice the rate of the economy as a whole and is well placed for continued growth as demand for creative content - particularly in English - grows (DCMS, 2008, p. 6). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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