Synonyms of the word grow


GROWACQUIRE - ARISE - BECOME - CHANGE - CULTIVATE - DEVELOP - FARM - GET - INCREASE - MATURATE - MATURE - ORIGINATE - PRODUCE - RAISE - RISE - TURN - UPRISE

grow

  • v. (ergative) To become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  • v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  • v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

acquire

  • v. (transitive) To get.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
  • v. (medicine) To contract.
  • v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

arise

  • v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
  • v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
  • v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

become

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
  • v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  • v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
  • v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
  • v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cultivate

  • v. To grow plants, notably crops.
  • v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
  • v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

develop

  • v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
  • v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
  • v. (transitive) To create.
  • v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
  • v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
  • v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
  • v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

farm

  • n. (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
  • n. (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
  • n. (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  • n. (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which…
  • n. (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
  • n. The body of farmers of public revenues.
  • n. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
  • n. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  • n. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising…
  • n. (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
  • n. (computing) A group of coordinated servers.
  • v. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
  • v. (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
  • v. (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
  • v. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return…
  • v. (obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
  • v. (obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
  • v. (video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area…

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

increase

  • v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
  • v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  • v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
  • n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
  • n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

maturate

  • v. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
  • v. To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).

mature

  • adj. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
  • adj. Profound; careful.
  • adj. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  • v. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
  • v. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
  • v. (transitive) To make something mature.
  • v. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

originate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.
  • v. (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).

produce

  • v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
  • v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
  • v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
  • n. Items produced.
  • n. Amount produced.
  • n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rise

  • v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • v. To begin; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • v. To come; to offer itself.
  • v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  • n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  • n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
  • n. (informal) An angry reaction.
  • n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

uprise

  • v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
  • v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
  • v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
  • n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

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