Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of grow.
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Examples
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I ken har ther calls, 'nd ther replies,' nd ther beatin 'uv oars, tho' thar oars war broken, 'nd ther calls growed still two' nd three thousand year ago.
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Margaret, who, like Topsy, merely 'growed' without pedigree as a pauper in
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Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts.
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Them Better Things was not such as growed in Wyoming.
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Lincoln "growed" whiskers after his first nomination for the Presidency.
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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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"growed," but strange because each builder copies the original.
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Papa kept tellin' 'er that there was nothin' he could do 'bout me since I was full growed an' could make my own choices.
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The closest this country has come to starvation in a long time has been when repubs sowed their seeds 10 years ago and nothing has growed from it yet.
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I am actually more concerned for the welfare of you younguns than I am about my own future, heck I'm pretty much set up, kid is growed up and I ain't havin 'no more so I just anticipate a comfortable semi retirement but climate change is something you are going to be dealing with long after I'm underground.
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