Definitions for grown

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grown grown

Spelling: [grohn]

IPA: /groʊn/

Grown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in grown (gnorw).

Definitions for grown

verb

1. past participle of grow.

Idioms

1. grow a pair, Slang: Vulgar. pair1 (def 23).

adjective

1. advanced in growth:
2. arrived at full growth or maturity; adult:

Verb phrases

1. grow into, to become large enough for: to become mature or experienced enough for:
2. grow on/upon, to increase in influence or effect: to become gradually more liked or accepted by:
3. grow out of, to become too large or mature for; outgrow: to originate in; develop from:
4. grow up, to be or become fully grown; attain mental or physical maturity. to come into existence; arise:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to grow:
2. to allow to grow:
3. to cover with a growth (used in the passive):

verb (used without object)

1. to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
2. to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, as by crystallization.
3. to arise or issue as a natural development from an original happening, circumstance, or source:
4. to increase gradually in size, amount, etc.; become greater or larger; expand:
5. to become gradually attached or united by or as if by growth:
6. to come to be by degrees; become:
7. Nautical. to lie or extend in a certain direction, as an anchor cable.

Origin of grown

before 900; Middle English growen, Old English grōwan; cognate with Dutch groeien, Old High German grouwan, Old Norse grōa

Examples for grown

It was through her renunciation that he had grown so strong, so pure, so good.

But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.

A light not of this world is gleaming there; and it has grown brighter and clearer since we parted.

Why the world should have grown cold at that particular moment, we do not know.

It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.

He never suffered any physical abuse and had grown close with Jane, Brooke, and her family.

The sound in her ear had grown to a roar, as of many mill-wheels.

The British film industry had grown and Hitch was a star in its small firmament.

In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

It had grown much too cold to do without some sort of artificial covering.