| grow | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce |
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| (verb) become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain | - |
| (verb) cause to grow or develop | - |
| (verb) increase in size by natural process | - |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: maturate, mature |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: develop |
| (verb) become attached by or as if by the process of growth | - |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, produce, raise |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
| growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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| (noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| grown | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup |
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| grownup | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown |
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| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
| growth | (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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| (noun) vegetation that has grown | - |
| (noun) something grown or growing | - |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: increase, increment |
| (noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | - |