Entry Word: grow

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care <a dedicated home gardener who grows tomatoes in her small garden every summer>

Synonyms crop, cultivate, culture, promote, raise, rear, tend

Related Words breed, produce, propagate; plant, sow; gather, glean, harvest, reap; germinate, quicken, root, sprout

Near Antonyms kill; dig, extirpate, pick, pluck, pull (up), uproot; cut, hay, mow

2 to become mature <you've grown so much since we last saw each other> — see mature
3 to eventually have as a state or quality <he will grow angry if we don't answer his question> — see become