grew up

verb

past tense of grow up
as in grew
to become mature everyone has to grow up at some point in their lives

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Recent Examples of grew up Psychedelic Turkish funk Karakus grew up hearing the psychedelic Turkish funk and other music popular with her parents’ generation. — Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026 But after meeting Sessa, who grew up in New Jersey like Bourdain, the team of four reshaped the script. — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Steve grew up in Southeast Michigan; the couple owns the Clippers in Los Angeles County; and Washington is home. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 De Araújo and her casting director cast a wide net to find Josephine, and ultimately discovered Reeves at a local farmers market in San Francisco, near where the filmmaker herself grew up. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Children who were too young to consent grew up with their childhoods available on demand. — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 Karim Kattan was born in 1989 in Jerusalem, grew up in Bethlehem, and holds a doctorate in comparative literature. — Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026 To make room for Lombard, the Yankees demoted Volpe, who was once considered the next Derek Jeter — a homegrown shortstop with immense talent who grew up obsessed with the Yankees. — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Get To Know Ashley Cooke Ashley Cooke grew up in a family that moved around a lot, from Wisconsin to California to Florida. — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grew up
  1. grew
  2. progressed
  3. aged
Verb
  • Amid the chaos, militias grew in wealth and power, particularly in Tripoli and the western part of the country.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Tool call volume is not stable, and Arcade says its own call volume grew 25 times in six months.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of grew
Verb
  • Perhaps one of the Cold War’s boldest ideas never progressed beyond the experimental stage.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The board has met in closed session multiple times in recent months as the investigation into Hill has progressed, most recently meeting on July 22.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of progressed
Verb
  • Throughout the evacuation, Olya fixates on the fact that men aged 18 to 60 are barred from leaving, all the while wearing a ridiculous big fluffy hat that seems to protect her more from the societal meltdown around her than from the cold.
    — Sonya Vseliubska, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
  • In this case, the whiskey was distilled from January to June of 2015, and aged for a full 11 years in new American oak barrels.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of aged

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