grew

Definition

  • past tense of 'grow'

Examples

  • She 'grew' intellectually and emotionally in her first year at college.

  • He 'grew up' playing music. [=he played music when he was a child]

  • As the tree 'grew' taller, the branches began to touch the house.

Movie quotes

  • (..) You reconstructed all of this from memory? Like I told you, we had lots of time. ARIADNE: What is that? That's the house Mal grew up in. - Well, will she be in there? - No. Come on. We both wanted to live in a house, but we loved this type of building. (..)
    2010 Inception