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What is the verb for growth?

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grow
  1. (ergative) To become bigger.
  2. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  3. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  4. (copular verb) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “My belly is going to grow if I continue this trend of excessive alcohol consumption.”
      “It is the most natural thing in life to get out of bed every morning and grow a day older.”
      “He began to grow hairs in places he never thought possible.”
growing
growe
  1. Archaic spelling of grow.
grown
growes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of growe
grows
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Our capacity for savagery grows as rational thought is overwhelmed by fear, despair, and anger.”
      “In that country there grows in abundance a species of seed in form and color like oats, and locally known as sabadilla.”
      “That party thinks that money just grows on trees and is there for the picking.”
groweth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow
growest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of grow
grewest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of grow
growed
  1. (literary) simple past tense and past participle of grow
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was all growed up in young trees, and that's where he kept his horses most of the time.”
      “The 1ers crus are growed in new casks and in recent casks up to bottling in January.”
      “Not much later, the company growed out to be a global player in the confection of liturgical garments, altar linen and banners.”
growen
  1. (obsolete) past participle of grown
growne
  1. past participle of growe
  2. Examples:
    1. “Eurydice...meaning nothing lesse than to let her husband serue as a Stale, keeping the throne warme till another were growne old enough to sit in it.”
grew
  1. simple past tense of grow
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “According to archaeological excavations, an oak forest grew on the monticule.”
      “The story is told from the viewpoint of someone who grew up during the Great Depression.”
      “She became so popular that a whole industry grew up around her and her image.”
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