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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grown \Grown\, p. p. of {Grow}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grown See {grow}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grow
verb
1: pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" [syn: {turn}]
2: become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast"
3: increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"
4: cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his backyard"
5: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: {mature}, {maturate}]
6: come into existence; take on form or shape; "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" [syn: {originate}, {arise}, {rise}, {develop}, {uprise}, {spring up}]
7: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: {raise}, {farm}, {produce}]
8: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: {develop}, {produce}, {get}, {acquire}]
9: grow emotionally or mature; "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" [syn: {develop}]
10: become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The tree trunks had grown together" [also: {grown}, {grew}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grown
adjective: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: {adult}, {big}, {full-grown}, {fully grown}, {grownup}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "grown": adult, assembled, big, blooming, blossoming, brought about, budding, built, burgeoning, cast, caused, constructed, crafted, created, crescent, custom, custom-built, custom-made, developed, done, effectuated, executed, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, florescent, flourishing, flowering, forged, formed, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, gathered, growing, grown-up, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, hypertrophied, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, marriable, marriageable, mass-produced, mature, matured, maturescent, milled, mined, molded, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, overdeveloped, overgrown, performed, prefab, prefabricated, processed, produced, put together, raised, rank, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, ripe, ripened, shaped, smelted, sprouting, thriving, well-built, well-constructed, well-made
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