grow Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite tending to spread quickly
  aggressive; fast-growing.
  
  • an aggressive tumor

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• adjective satellite of plants that grow relatively low to the ground
  ground-hugging; flat-growing.
  

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• adjective satellite (of animals) fully developed
  grown; full-grown; big; adult; grownup.
  
  • an adult animal
  • a grown woman

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Full"-grown` adjective

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1. Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

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• adjective satellite (of animals) fully developed
  grown; full-grown; big; adult; grownup.
  
  • an adult animal
  • a grown woman

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Grass"-grown` adjective

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1. Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.

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• verb grow beyond or across
  overgrow.
  
  • The ivy overgrew the patio

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• verb become an adult
  

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• a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.

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• noun pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
  
• noun emotional distress arising during adolescence
  
• noun problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
  

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• noun the season during which a crop grows best
  

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• covered with a growth.

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Liv"er-grown` adjective

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1. Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

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• adjective satellite of plants that grow relatively low to the ground
  ground-hugging; flat-growing.
  

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Lung"-grown` adjective

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1. (Med.) Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

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• verb cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
  develop.
  
  • The perfect climate here develops the grain
  • He developed a new kind of apple

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• adjective satellite overgrown with moss
  mossy.
  
• adjective satellite (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
  fogyish; mossy; stodgy; stick-in-the-mud.
  
  • moss-grown ideas about family life

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Moss"-grown` adjective

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1. Overgrown with moss.

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• adjective satellite tending to spread quickly
  aggressive; fast-growing.
  
  • an aggressive tumor

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• adjective satellite (of plants) having tall spindly stems
  leggy.
  

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• to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from.

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• to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells.

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• to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children.
• to grow to maturity.

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