GREW

Definition: GREW

GREW

1. Imp. of Grow.

Imperative

1. Of Grow

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GREW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: GREW

I grew up without a father, I know what that is. And I will not allow my family to go through that (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Something maybe grew a size larger (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Robin! You lost your arm in battle, but you grew yourself a nice set of boobs (Robin Hood: Men in Tights; writing credit: Mel Brooks, J. David Shapiro)

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where the guy signed a contract and they cut out his tongue and put it in a jar and it wouldn't die, it just grew and pulsated and gave birth to baby tongues (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.)

Yes, we grew up together (Glory; writing credit: Robert Gould Shaw; Lincoln Kirstein)

Truer than any tree ever grew (Longer; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John)

I grew to love you more each passing day (If You Love Me (Let Me Know); performing artist: Elvis Presley)

'Til I grew up, now I blew up it makes you sick to ya stomach, doesn't it (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)

Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar. (references; author: unknown)

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)

And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1931)

I'm Glad My Boy Grew Up to Be a Soldier (1915)

When Mary Grew Up (1913)

Why Father Grew a Beard (1909)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dogs Who Grew Me: A Tribute to the Six Dogs Who Taught Me What Really Matters in Life (reference)

• Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning (reference)

• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (reference)

• How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women (reference)

• How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ranma 1/2 - OAV Series, Vol. 5: One Grew Over the Kuno's Nest (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Green Grass Grew All Around (reference)

• Grew Up Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Although few blue crabs in 1999, some grew to large size. A six-inch ruler was not long enough to measure these crabs caught in the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Nehemiah Grew, M.D. : Secretary to the Royal Society / Newton sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Crewmen show off beards they grew during a 138-day period when no one was off the ship. Possibly taken during Santa Fe's Aleutians tour, circa summer 1943. Credit: NAVY.

When they stood before Daniel Webster John's voice grew hushed. Credit: Library of Congress.

The boys skimmed swiftly over the muddy bottom, going steadily downward as the light grew less and less. Credit: Library of Congress.

Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, cultivating his field of corn. In 1942 he took the championship for corn as a member of a 4-H club; he grew 97.07 bushels of corn to the acre. Credit: Library of Congress.

Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus, whether a family by degrees grew up into a common-wealth, and the fatherly authority being continued on to the elder son, every one in his turn growing up under it, tacitly submitted to it, and the easiness and equality of it not offending any one, every one acquiesced, till time seemed to have confirmed it, and settled a right of succession by prescription: or whether several families, or the descendants of several families, whom chance, neighbourhood, or business brought together, uniting into society, the need of a general, whose conduct might defend them against their enemies in war, and the great confidence the innocence and sincerity of that poor but virtuous age, (such as are almost all those which begin governments, that ever come to last in the world) gave men one of another, made the first beginners of commonwealths generally put the rule into one man's hand, without any other express limitation or restraint, but what the nature of the thing, and the end of government required: which ever of those it was that at first put the rule into the hands of a single person, certain it is no body was intrusted with it but for the public good and safety, and to those ends, in the infancies of commonwealths, those who had it commonly used it. (Second Treatise of Government)

This might be started on a modest scale and would grow as confidence grew. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In one respect Mrs. Elton grew even worse than she had appeared at first

When he came before the door, His face grew paler than before

It was strange, too, that while Scrooge remained unaltered in his outward form, the Ghost grew older, clearly older

After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature

They were men who, diminished in number, grew greater in heart

A trembling seized him and his eyes grew dim.

Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old.

And now the owner men grew angry

That these Yahoos engendered, and their brood in a short time grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation

We don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They did not get better as they grew up nor did they become worse. (references)

Some nerve cells in the lower parts of the brain also grew into the graft. (references)

Some ganglion cell axons grew distances equivalent to nearly twice their normal length. (references)

Business

Only agriculture grew by less than 5 percent. (references)

The domestic market grew steadily in the 1989-1998 decade. (references)

Imports from the U.S. grew 31.4 percent to US$ 741 million. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

The largest media empires (including media outlets owned by the federal, regional, and local governments) remained intact and, in some cases, grew. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Mining production grew slightly in 2000. (references)

Sri Lanka

Banking and insurance grew by 6.4 percent. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

Most of the prisons grew maize, millet, and vegetables, although the UHRC accused prison farms of overworking inmates. (references)

Bolivia

As the crowd grew larger, additional security forces were called in, and police supporting the operation used tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowd. (references)

Tajikistan

This problem reflected in part the self-funded status of most prisons, under which, before 1992, prisoners grew much of their own food or made goods for sale. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

The study found that, during 2000, the indigenous population grew by 3.5 percent, to a total of approximately 350,000 persons, spread among 216 "nations." At the beginning of the 20th century, the population was approximately one-third its present size, and scholars have estimated that about 1,000 indigenous "nations," comprising 3 to 4 million persons, existed at the time of discovery by the Europeans. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

GDP grew 2.7 percent during the year. (references)

TUNISIA

Exports of non-food manufactured products grew by over 11 percent. (references)

Trade

Korea

In the 1980's the Korean economy grew rapidly. (references)

Philippines

Commercial banks' outstanding loans (inclusive of interbank credits) grew 2.6 percent year-in-year in 2000. The revival in bank lending has been modest thus far, with loans as of April 2001 up 5.6 percent over 2000's comparable period. (references)

Australia

The effective rate of assistance on manufactured goods fell from 22 percent to 4.5 percent between 1985 and 2000. Over the same period, exports of elaborately transformed manufactures (ETM's) grew from 11 to 24 percent of merchandise exports and service exports from 16 to 24 percent of exports of goods and services. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

Worker complaints about employers deducting social security contributions from wages but failing to pay them into accounts grew. (references)

Kazakhstan

Monthly average wages during the year grew 19 percent over 2000. The legal maximum workweek is 48 hours, although most enterprises maintained a 40-hour workweek, with at least a 24-hour rest period. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "GREW": re-grew.

Chinese 

增长 (grow, grown). (various references)

Czech

min.èas od grow. (various references)

Farsi 

زمان ماضی فعلworg . (various references)

French

venue, crût, crûrent, crûmes. (various references)

German

wuchs (accession, accretion, build, growth, stature). (various references)

Greek 

μεγάλωσε, αόρ. του grow, αυξήθηκε. (various references)

Hungarian

termeszt (grown, to grow, to raise), nõtt. (various references)

Italian

crescita (expansion, growing, growth, increase, rise, rising). (various references)

Korean 

성장했다. (various references)

Pig Latin

ewgray.(various references)

Romanian

trecut de la grow. (various references)

Russian 

выращивать;и)расти (grown). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od grow. (various references)

Spanish

pret de grow, crecida (rise, spate). (various references)

Swedish

växte. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "GREW": grewsome, grewsomer, grewsomest. (additional references)

Words ending with "GREW": misgrew, outgrew, overgrew, regrew, upgrew. (additional references)

Misspellings

"GREW" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agrew, egrew, ger, gerc, gerk, gerp, gerr, gew, gewe, gfe, gje, Gjre, graw, grawl, grawy, gre, greb, grec, gref, greg, grel, grem, gren, greo, grep, grer, gret, grev, Grewe, grewl, grews, grewt, Grex, grey, griw, griwe, grue, gruw, guew, Gurwen, Gyrwe, orew, Rew, sgrew. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: erg, reg.

-2 letters: er, re, we.

+1 letter: wager.

+2 letters: earwig, gawker, gawper, glower, gnawer, grower, reglow, regrew, regrow, swager, upgrew, wagers, wagger, winger.

+3 letters: brewage, brewing, crewing, dowager, earwigs, gawkers, gawkier, gawpers, glowers, gnawers, growers, growled, growler, legwork, misgrew, outgrew, periwig, ragweed, redwing, reglows, regrown, regrows, reweigh, swagers, swagger, swigger, swinger, twanger, wagered, wagerer, waggers, waggery, wagoner, wangler, warpage, wearing, wedgier, weigher, wergeld, wergelt, wergild, wiggery, wiggier, wiggler, wingers, wingier, wordage, wrangle, wriggle, wringed, wringer, wronged, wronger.