Synonyms

turn

Examples

"The weather turned nasty" "She grew angry" "The teacher became impatient"

Used in print

In 1920 , as the startling news that the 1919 White_Sox had conspired to lose the World_Series leaked_out , fans grew disillusioned and disinterested in baseball .

As he grows older it may be a matter of providing some accustomed object ( his `` magic '' thing ) .

It is not our bodies but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft .

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive , say beyond 25000 per_annum , then somebody is going_to hang , it follows that the more eminent the victim , the more impressive the lesson .

Since rococo music tends to be pretty and elegant above_all , it can seem rather vacuous to twentieth-century ears that have grown accustomed_to the stress and dissonances of composers from Beethoven to Boulez .

Related terms

change turn bald change_state

Examples

"The problem grew too large for me" "Her business grew fast"

Used in print

As the play unfolds , however , the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community .

It is like a mysterious epidemic which , starting first with Abigail and Parris , spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through the whole town until all have been infected by it .

It grows terribly and unavoidably in power and leaves in its wake a trail of misery , moral disintegration , and destruction .

For this does not account_for the integral , elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as the play unfolds , nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness which comes over those who watch the play like a spell .

It is the spirit which is the source of a community 's drawing_power by means of which others are drawn into it from the world outside so_that the community grows and prospers .

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increase rise boom expand expand build_up stretch develop burgeon develop root enlarge augment overgrow rise branch vegetate overgrow hypertrophy mushroom lengthen proliferate grow_up grow_over increase

Examples

"Corn doesn't grow here" "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"

Used in print

They germinate quickly , the tiny plants appearing in a week , and grow along lustily .

They stick_to their principles , insist upon their due , but grow and bloom with dependable regularity if given it .

It is hard to understand how he concluded that most snakes do not grow appreciably after attaining maturity ; he was working with species of Java , so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect .

It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate .

`` Is it because of my slovenliness that hair grows on my face ?

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develop develop shoot exfoliate vegetate ankylose vegetate twin undergrow cut

Examples

: "He grows vegetables in his backyard"

Used in print

Nothing is easier to grow from seed than pansies .

If those are n't enough for you , why not grow some just for winter blooming ?

But you will never get better flowers than the seed you grow .

Would you like to grow exhibition pansies ?

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develop rotate vegetate root germinate swell growth

Synonyms

mature maturate

Examples

"He matured fast" "The child grew fast"

Used in print

She was a child too much a part of her environment , too eager to grow and learn and experience .

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develop develop grow_up ripen find_oneself growth maturation age

Synonyms

arise develop originate spring_up rise uprise

Examples

"A new religious movement originated in that country" "a love that sprang up from friendship," "the idea for the book grew out of a short story" "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

Used in print

At the point where they ended , another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father_Lucian_Galtier in 1840 .

The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties , neither having a formal education applicable to , or experience in , manufacturing or selling our type of articles .

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become come well_up come_forth resurge head develop initiation emergence

Synonyms

raise produce farm

Examples

"The Bordeaux region produces great red wines" "They produce good ham in Parma" "We grow wheat here" "We raise hogs here"

Used in print

More_than 700 employes make gin machinery that 's sold anywhere cotton is grown .

She had raised a calf , grown it beef-fat .

As we know , the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; and it is still very far from certain how valid the party 's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable , to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned_into something increasingly like a state farm .

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cultivate overproduce carry keep farming farmer farming agriculturist

Synonyms

develop get acquire produce

Examples

"He grew a beard" The patient developed abdominal pains" I got funny spots all over my body" "Well-developed breasts"

Used in print

He had the hardest pains of growing before him now , as he approached twelve .

Pa had his head up , glaring , his teeth gnawing at the place where he 'd grown a mustache once .

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change pupate spring work_up sprout stool teethe teeth cut regrow fledge leaf pod develop acquiring

Synonyms

develop

Examples

"The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten" "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"

Used in print

The Deacon_Board , headed by a black_man named Carlson , had practically taken_over as the pastor grew old , and had_its_way with the support of the Amen_corner .

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change outgrow make development

Examples

"The tree trunks had grown together"

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change