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  1. In a short period of time he grew into a great communist fighter.
    在很短时期中,他成长为一名伟大的共产产义战士。
  2. The capital and largest city of Uganda, in the southern part of the country on Lake Victoria. It grew around a fort established in1890. Population, 458,503.
    坎帕拉乌干达首都及最大城市,位于该国南部维多利亚湖上。该市在1890年建立的一座城堡周围发展起来。人口458,503
  3. He has grown into an old miser.
    他已经变成老守财奴了.



Grew \Grew\ (gr[udd]),
imp. of {Grow}.


Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), v. i. [imp. {Grew} (gr[udd]); p. p. {Grown
(gr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Growing}.] [AS. gr[=o]wan; akin
to D. groeijen, Icel. gr[=o]a, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf.
{Green}, {Grass}.]
1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to
increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter
into the living organism; -- said of animals and
vegetables and their organs.

2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to
be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

Winter began to grow fast on. --Knolles.

Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus. --Shak.

3. To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be
produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice
grows in warm countries.

Where law faileth, error groweth. --Gower.

4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect
from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

For his mind
Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron.

5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
--Shak.

{Growing cell}, or {Growing slide}, a device for preserving
alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a
manner to permit its growth to be watched under the
microscope.

{Grown over}, covered with a growth.

{To grow out of}, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or
as a branch from the main stem; to result from.

These wars have grown out of commercial
considerations. --A. Hamilton.

{To grow up}, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as,
grown up children.

{To grow together}, to close and adhere; to become united by
growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. --Howells.

Syn: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand;
extend.

  1. It grew in size as the tax-writing committees tacked on amendments extending some expiring provisions and granting tax benefits for selected groups.
  2. But Loc, who grew up in a two-story house on the affluent west side of Los Angeles and went to University High School and Santa Monica College, had to travel by bus to the city's tough south side to get his reputation.
  3. In 1990 commercial bank lending to small business grew by 11 per cent but public lending rose by almost 20 per cent.
  4. The Finance Ministry said Japan's reserves of gold, convertible foreign currencies and special drawing rights (SDRs) grew $3.44 billion in December to $81.48 billion.
  5. They grew in number from 7,500 in 1978 to 19,400 in 1991. The Royal Society says no researcher should have to undertake more than two short-term contracts.
  6. Among manufacturers, productivity grew at a 3.8% rate in the third quarter and a 3.7% rate in the second, after falling in the first quarter of 1991 and the last quarter of 1990.
  7. "I love rock and roll," Mrs. Gore told reporters after her speech. "I grew up on it." A seven-officer Marine Corps jury Friday acquitted Marine Cpl.
  8. The Limited Inc., the specialty apparel retailer based in Columbus, Ohio, posted an 11 percent total sales increase while sales grew 9 percent on a comparable-store basis.
  9. In other reports: _The Labor Department said new state unemployment claims for the week ending Oct. 7 grew 62,000 in a week's time to 396,000. That report amounted to a further indication of the economy's softness.
  10. Japan's trade surplus grew 41.7% in September from a year earlier to a record, heightening worries about friction with other nations.
  11. Attendances at races mushroomed, television audiences grew apace, sponsorship brought unprecedented resources to the teams, and the big car-makers entered the fray on a greater scale than ever before.
  12. Though the total Camel franchise has been dormant, its share of filter cigarette sales grew to 3.1% last year from 2.6% in 1987.
  13. New plants grew by just 6% in 1990, compared with the average 23% annual growth since 1986, according to Ciemex-Wefa, an economic consulting firm in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
  14. The total world market for electronic equipment grew by $54 billion in 1988 to reach $461 billion, and the world market for HDTV receivers and VCRs is forecast to be less than $30 billion by 2010.
  15. The office grew into a heavyweight in the 1970s, as then-booming oil prices poured billions into its coffers.
  16. As mid-day temperatures soared, the cat's cries grew weaker as frantic passersby gathered around the car and searched for the car's owner.
  17. His investment grew sevenfold to $35,000 in about three years.
  18. While Westerners continued to flee occupied Kuwait with tales of low food supplies and looting by Iraqi troops, international pressure grew against Saddam to withdraw from the oil-rich emirate he invaded and annexed.
  19. There were also Pounds 21.3m of extraordinary charges relating to losses on sale of assets. At the trading level profits grew 5 per cent to Pounds 15.8m.
  20. She grew up in nearby Celoron, a rural hamlet on Chautauqua Lake.
  21. In its annual report, the Bank of Mexico said the gross national product grew by 1.4 percent in 1987, after contracting by 4 percent the previous year.
  22. Mahoney dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and grew tobacco with his father and a brother-in-law until he got a job at M&T Chemical Co. in Carrollton.
  23. Britain's economy grew at a faster-than-expected 1.3 percent in the second quarter, the government said Tuesday.
  24. Private-sector business employment grew at an average rate of only 120,000 a month in August and September, compared with more than 300,000 a month during the first seven months of the year.
  25. Sales in the year grew to about $52.5 million from the year-earlier $45.1 million, Jewelmasters said.
  26. Ms. Kaufman is a New York free-lance writer who grew up in Detroit.
  27. As she grew up, there was jealousy between the boys; then Robert died of pneumonia and Fay became pregnant by Stephen, indeed married him, to his mother's embarrassment as she told the registrar that they were legally brother and sister.
  28. Hokey, maybe, but this town's fame grew from tropical visions and corny promotional schemes.
  29. It was like when the Beatles came over and everyone grew their hair long and shook their heads.
  30. The deficit in merchandise trade narrowed with Japan and Canada but grew with Western Europe.
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