Grow: alternatives and connections

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Same as Anchylose.

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To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatie…

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Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

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To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

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A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

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To bud. See Bourgeon.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…

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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

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To care; to desire.

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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

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To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.

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A bag; a pouch.

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To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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To become a pupa.

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To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

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To grow again.

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To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flatt…

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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To leap; to bound; to jump.

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To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

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A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various p…

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

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One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

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To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height.

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To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

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To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; fa…

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The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; fa…

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The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

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The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

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One who farms

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One who farms

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One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

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One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

Grow often suggests gradual or organic increase.