grow: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with G · ends with W
Meaning of grow
verb
- ergative
To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
Example: Children grow quickly.
- ergative
To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere).
Example: Apples now grow all over the world.
- intransitive
To appear or sprout.
Example: Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.
- intransitive
To develop, to mature.
Example: As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.
Listed forms: grows, growing, grew, growed, grown, growe.
Source: Wiktionary — grow.
noun
An illicit cannabis farm.
Listed forms: grows, growe.
Source: Wiktionary — grow.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for grow.
verb
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
verb
develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
verb
come into existence; take on form or shape
verb
cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is grow in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of grow
G(2) + R(1) + O(1) + W(4) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of grow
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from grow
6 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in grow. Showing up to 24, longest first.