[intransitive] to increase in size, number, strength or quality. The sector is growing at a phenomenal rate. The performance improved as their confidence ... Grow on · Grow up · Grow apart · Grow back

grow · 1[intransitive] to increase in size, number, strength, or quality The company profits grew by 5% last year. · 2[intransitive] to become bigger or taller ...

The earliest known use of the noun grow is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for grow is from 1536, in Acts of Parliament.

Of a plant: To manifest vigorous life; to put forth foliage, flourish, be green. Also of land: To be verdant, produce vegetation.

growing · ​increasing in size, amount or degree. A growing number of people are returning to full-time education. one of the country's fastest growing industries ...

grow into · ​to gradually develop into a particular type of person or thing over a period of time. He's grown into a handsome young man. · ​(of a child) to grow ...

to gradually develop into a particular type of person over a period of time. He's grown into a handsome young man.

grow up · ​. (of a person) to develop into an adult. She grew up in Boston (= lived there as a child). Their children have all grown up and left home now. · ​ ...

if someone or something grows on you, you start to like them or it more and more The neighborhood was beginning to grow on me. This song is really growing ...

increasing in size, amount, or degree; A growing number of people are returning to school full-time. one of the country's fastest growing industries.