grow up
Verb
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Verb
grow up
- (intransitive) To mature and become an adult.
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- (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?
- (to mature) age, upgrow; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (to start to develop) blossom, prosper
- French: grandir
- German: erwachsen, aufwachsen
- Italian: crescere
- Portuguese: crescer
- Russian: расти́
- Spanish: crecer
- Italian: fiorire, attecchire, crescere, svilupparsi
- Portuguese: crescer
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