grow

英 [gr??] 美[ɡro]

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第三人稱單數:?grows;過去式:?grew;過去分詞:?grown;現在分詞:?growing;

grow 增加

來自PIE*ghre, 生長，詞源同grass,green.

grow: grow: [OE] Grow comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *grō-, which also produced Dutch groeien ‘grow’ and English grass and green. Latin grāmen ‘grass’ may indicate connections outside Germanic, but this is not certain.
=> grass, green
grow (v.): Old English growan (of plants) "to flourish, increase, develop, get bigger" (class VII strong verb; past tense greow, past participle growen), from Proto-Germanic *gro- (cognates: Old Norse groa "to grow" (of vegetation), Old Frisian groia, Dutch groeien, Old High German gruoen), from PIE root *ghre- "to grow, become green" (see grass). Applied in Middle English to human beings (c. 1300) and animals (early 15c.) and their parts, supplanting Old English weaxan (see wax (v.)) in the general sense of "to increase." Transitive sense "cause to grow" is from 1774. To grow on "gain in the estimation of" is from 1712.
Have you ever heard anything about God, Topsy? ... Do you know who made you?" "Nobody, as I knows on," said the child. ... "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me." [Harriet B. Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1851]

1. The mother provides the embryo with nourishment and a place to grow.: 母親為胎兒提供營養和成長的空間。

3. Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.: 因患癌癥瀕臨死亡的人會日漸消瘦，而且身體明顯衰弱。

4. In its natural habitat, the hibiscus will grow up to 25ft.: 在原生境中，木槿能長到25英尺高。

5. He predicted that my hair would grow back "in no time": 他預言我的頭發“一眨眼”就會長回來。