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

  • (..) French Fox's specialty was sex. What was your specialty? Knives. MIA: Character I played, Raven McCoy... her background was she grew up raised by circus performers. According to the show... she was the deadliest woman in the world with a knife... and she knew (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction