ETYM See note under Rise.
1. To be fully aware of; realize fully; SYN. take account.
2. To recognize with gratitude; be grateful for.
3. To gain in value, as of a currency; SYN. revalue.
4. To increase the value, as of a currency.
1. To be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
2. To cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; SYN. make grow.
3. To grow, progress, unfold, or evolve gradually through a process of evolution, natural growth, or differentiation.
4. To make something new and usually improved, such as a product.
5. To generate gradually.
6. To gradually acquire new traits or characteristics; SYN. evolve.
7. To grow emotionally or mature; SYN. grow.
8. To expand a function or expression in the form of a series, in mathematics.
9. To change the use of and make available or usable.
10. To elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
11. To disclose or reveal (obsolete).
12. To superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
13. To move one's chess pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
14. To make visible by means of chemical solutions; said of photographic film.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: grew, grown).
1. To become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain.
2. To increase in size by natural process; of living matter, such as plants and animals.
3. To cause to grow or develop.
4. To come to have, of physical features and attributes; The patient developed abdominal pain; SYN. develop, produce, get, acquire.
5. To cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; SYN. raise, farm, produce.
6. To become attached by or as if by the process of growth.
1. To change position, as of a body part (nontranslational motion):
2. To go or proceed from one point to another
3. To cause to move; SYN. displace.
4. To progress by being changed: SYN. go, run.
5. To arouse sympathy or compassion in
6. To change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
7. To propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting; SYN. make a motion.
8. To have a turn; make one's move in a game; SYN. go.
9. To exist or thrive in a specified environment
10. To dispose of by selling
1. To accumulate rapidly (said of debts or scores).
2. To make by sewing together quickly
(Irregular preterit, past participle: thrived).
To gain in wealth; SYN. prosper, fligh high, flourish.
1. To establish vegetation on.
2. To grow like a plant.
3. To lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind.
4. To produce vegetation.
5. To propagate asexually.