Collocations for "grow"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "grow" in context.
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grow
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- grow a [garden, plant]
- grow [food, tomatoes, flowers]
- grow into a [man, woman]
- grow up to be a [fireman, doctor]
- grow up!
- grow your [hair, nails, beard]
- grow your [bangs, color] out
- growing out my [bangs]
- let your [hair, sideburns] grow
- grow in [popularity, size, difficulty]
- grew (at least) [five inches]
- grow by [leaps, spurts]
- grow on [trees, bushes, vines]
- grow (it) from a [seed, seedling, cutting, bulb]
- grow from the [experience, pain]
- grow your [business, company, profits]
- [business] has grown (from)
- has grown from [10 employees, a small] to
- keeps growing [better, more beautiful] (with age)
- [it's, this song] is growing on me
- have grown very close to her
- grow together
- [they, the siblings, the friends] grew apart
- he'll grow into it
- grow [quickly, exponentially, linearly]
- [thrive, change, survive, develop] and grow
- [continued, began] to grow
- [her influence, their reach] has grown
'grow' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
absence
- accustomed
- architect
- baker
- barren
- basil
- beard
- bilingual
- birch
- blackberry
- blueberry
- cabbage
- cane
- cereal
- cherry
- continue
- corn
- cranberry
- cucumber
- currant
- daisy
- dense
- dill
- expect
- fat
- fennel
- fern
- flax
- flower
- forecast
- fortunate
- garden
- hair
- hay
- heal
- hemp
- impatient
- indoor
- kitchen
- lettuce
- lily
- mature
- mild
- milk
- nurture
- oats
- orange
- outside
- pair
- pineapple