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grow

verb
  1. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal: beef up. See increase
  2. To bring into existence and foster the development of: breed, cultivate, propagate, raise. See care for, reproduction
  3. To bring or come to full development: age, develop, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen. See youth
  4. To come to be: become, come, get, turn (out), wax. See change

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