Definition of Grow

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Definition of Grow

Grow

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

To become attached of fixed; to adhere.

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

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Grow Quotations

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Kahlil Gibran

Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin

Grow Translations

grow in Afrikaans is kweek, word, aankweek, raak
grow in Danish is blive, vokse, ske
grow in Dutch is toegaan, voortgang hebben, gebeuren
grow in Norwegian is dyrke, vokse
grow in Spanish is crecer

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