grow up
English
Etymology
Dissimilated from Middle English upgrowen.
Pronunciation
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Verb
grow up (third-person singular simple present grows up, present participle growing up, simple past grew up, past participle grown up)
- (intransitive) To mature and become an adult.
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
- I'm in the place where I grew up, where my alma mater is.
- (intransitive) To start to develop; to flourish.
- Socialism grew up in the industrial cities.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection).
- Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?
Synonyms
- (to mature): age, upgrow; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (to start to develop): blossom, prosper
Derived terms
Translations
to mature and become an adult
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to flourish
idiomatic: to stop acting as a child
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Interjection
- (imperative) Used to criticize childish behavior, especially that considered unreasonable for one's age.
- You're giggling because I said "butt"? Grow up, seriously.
Anagrams
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