grow

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. mature, become, develop; increase, extend, expand, enlarge; nurture, raise, cultivate; germinate, breed, sprout; flourish, thrive. See agriculture, increase, prosperity, change.

- grow up

II

(Roget's IV) v.

1. [To become larger]

Syn. increase, expand, swell, wax, pullulate, thrive, gain, enlarge, swell in substance, augment, advance, dilate, stretch, mount, build, burst forth, spread, burgeon, amplify, germinate, multiply, develop, abound, accumulate, mature, jump up, flourish, luxuriate, grow up, rise, sprout, shoot up, start up, spring up, spread like wildfire*, pop up*, jump up*, branch out*, fill out*, puff out.

Ant. lessen*, shrink, wither.

2. [To change slowly]

Syn. become, develop, alter, tend, pass, evolve, flower, shift, flow, progress, advance, get, wax, turn into, work up, turn, improve, mellow, age, better, ripen, ripen into, blossom, assume the form of, open out, resolve itself into, mature.

Ant. continue*, regress, preserve.

3. [To cultivate]

Syn. raise, nurture, tend, nurse, foster, produce, plant, breed, market.

Ant. harm*, impede, neglect.

4. [To begin]

Syn. originate, start, arise; see begin 2 .

5. [To become]

Syn. develop into, grow to be, change to; see become 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

1. develop spread, increase, enlarge, expand, lengthen, double, flourish, thrive, mature, burgeon, progress, sprout, spring up, germinate, blossom, mushroom.

2. produce cultivate, raise, generate, nurture, propagate.

ANT.: 1. die, wither, shrink

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal: beef up. See INCREASE. 2. To bring into existence and foster the development of: breed, cultivate, propagate, raise. See CARE FOR, REPRODUCTION. 3. To bring or come to full development: age, develop, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen. See YOUTH. 4. To come to be: become, come, get, turn (out), wax. See CHANGE.