{
    "term": "grow",
    "partOfSpeech": "verblinking verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "grow",
            "heSheIt": "grows"
        },
        "pastSimple": "grew",
        "pastParticiple": "grown",
        "ingForm": "growing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to increase in size, number, strength or quality",
            "sensetop": "grow by somethinggrow in somethinggrow from somethinggrow to somethinggrow from something to something+ adj.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sector is growing at a phenomenal rate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The performance improved as their confidence grew."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Opposition to the latest proposals is **growing steadily**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The market is **growing rapidly**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales are **growing fast**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The business has **grown exponentially** over the past ten years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fears are growing for the safety of a teenager who disappeared a week ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **economy is growing** by roughly 2 per cent a year.",
                    "contextForm": "grow by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company profits grew by 5 per cent last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The family has **grown in size** recently.",
                    "contextForm": "grow in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This approach is **growing in popularity**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is growing in confidence all the time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her media empire grew from quite small beginnings.",
                    "contextForm": "grow from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That **number **will **grow** to two billion users in 2025.",
                    "contextForm": "grow to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city's **population has grown** from about 50 000 to over a million in 20 years.",
                    "contextForm": "grow from something to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **grow larger/stronger**",
                    "contextForm": "+ adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is **growing bigger** all the time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Profits are expected to grow by 10 per cent next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He continued to grow in confidence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Chinese economy has grown at a record pace."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Well before a billionth of a second had elapsed the universe started to grow exponentially."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Change, cause and effect", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fast", "quickly", "rapidly"],
                "verb + grow": ["seem to", "begin to", "start to"],
                "preposition": ["at", "by", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to become bigger or taller and develop into an adult",
            "sensetop": "+ noun+ adj.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You've grown since the last time I saw you!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The puppies grow quickly during the first six months."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nick's grown almost an inch in the last month.",
                    "contextForm": "+ noun"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **grow bigger/taller/older**",
                    "contextForm": "+ adj."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fast", "quickly", "rapidly"],
                "preposition": ["into", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to exist and develop in a particular place; to make plants grow",
            "sensetop": "grow to somethinggrow from somethinggrow somethinggrow something from something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The region is too dry for plants to grow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tomatoes grow best in direct sunlight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These roses grow to a height of 6 feet.",
                    "contextForm": "grow to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a tree that grows well from cuttings.",
                    "contextForm": "grow from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land is used to **grow crops**.",
                    "contextForm": "grow something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to **grow our food** more efficiently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't know they grew rice in France."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **plants were grown** in controlled conditions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I grew all these flowers from one packet of seeds.",
                    "contextForm": "grow something from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the nettles that grew thickly around the house"
                },
                {
                    "text": "organically grown produce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an attractive plant which is very hardy and easy to grow"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tree grew from a small acorn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Small acorns grow into great oak trees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A rose had been allowed to grow unchecked up one of the walls."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As the island subsided the reef grew upwards and outwards."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming", "Gardens"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["organically", "commercially", "locally"],
                "verb + grow": ["be easy to"],
                "phrases": ["grow something from seed"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to become longer; to allow something to become longer by not cutting it",
            "sensetop": "grow something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've decided to let my hair grow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've decided to grow my hair.",
                    "contextForm": "grow something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't recognize him—he's grown a beard."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["well", "poorly", "fast"],
                "verb + grow": ["allow something to", "let something"],
                "preposition": ["from", "into", "to"],
                "phrases": ["grow unchecked"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to begin to have a particular quality or feeling over a period of time",
            "sensetop": "+ adj.",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their dog had **grown old** and fat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were **growing tired of** her unreasonable behaviour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My eyes soon **grew accustomed to** the darkness."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mark and Jenny were growing closer every day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As time went on he grew more and more impatient."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The skies grew dark and it began to rain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't worry, you'll grow braver with time."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to gradually begin to do something",
            "sensetop": "grow to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sure you'll grow to like her in time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He grew to understand her reasons for leaving."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to develop and improve particular qualities or skills",
            "sensetop": "grow (as something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She continues to grow as an artist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A secure background will help a child to grow emotionally."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "to increase the size, quality or number of something",
            "sensetop": "grow something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are trying to grow the business."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Change, cause and effect"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that when you are away from somebody that you love, you love them even more",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "something large and successful often begins in a very small way",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody not to use something or spend money carelessly because you do not have a lot of it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to not delay in getting things done",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊ/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grow__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊz/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grows__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡruː/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grew__gb_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊn/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grown__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/growing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊ/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grow__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊz/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grows__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡruː/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grew__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊn/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/grown__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/",
                "audio": "gr/grow/growing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English grōwan (originally referring chiefly to plants), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch groeien, also to grass and green."
}