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UK
/ɡɹˈəʊn/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹoʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹoʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of animals) fully developed
a grown woman
an adult animal
How To Use grown In A Sentence
- The air had grown thick and smoky.
- Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it. Times, Sunday Times
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
- A carrot grown in one place is going to be different from one grown somewhere else.
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
- SH is sulfhydryl group content, which is a measure of glutathione, a major home-grown antioxidant. Low-carb diets reduce oxidative stress | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
- Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
- Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.