grew up

verb

Definition of grew upnext
past tense of grow up
as in grew
to become mature everyone has to grow up at some point in their lives

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grew up
  1. grew
  2. progressed
  3. aged
Verb
  • Similarly, sales grew 24 per cent in the 2021-2022 period.
    Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The turbos were banished and the cylinder count grew by 50 percent, as Ferrari’s range-topper gained a V-12 for the first time.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of grew
Verb
  • There was bleeding from time to time, likely from another subchorionic hematoma, but the pregnancy progressed into her third trimester with minimal issues.
    Nancy Borowick, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
  • While the Vikings offense warmed up as the game progressed, their defense put the clamps on Falcons quarterback Cousins, who was playing in Minnesota for the first time since leaving in the offseason.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of progressed
Verb
  • In good news for the baby-boom generation (born 1946 to 1964), now aged between 60 and 78, Perls believes that as many as 5 to 10% of them could live to 100 or older.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Around one in every five people aged below 50 around the world is infected with incurable genital herpes, researchers have newly estimated.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of aged
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