Grow

Definition

grow / grǝƱ / v ( pt grew /gru: / ; pp grown /grǝƱn/) ၁။ ႀကီးထြားလာသည္။ ျဖစ္ထြန္းသည္။ How tall you've grown! ❍ A growing child needs plenty of sleep. ❍ She wants to let her hair grow . သူက ဆံပင္ကို အရွည္ထားလိုသည္။ ❍ You must invest if you want your business to grow. ၂။ (က) ~ (from sth) (into sth) (အပင္)ေပါက္သည္။ (ဖားေလာင္းအျဖစ္မွ ဖား အျဖစ္သို႔) တိုးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲ သည္။ Rice does not grow in cold climates. ❍ Plants grow from seeds. ❍ Tadpoles grow into frogs. (ခ) ~ in sth တိုးတက္သည္။ တိုးပြားသည္။ grow in stature/ confidence/ wisdom. ၃။ ပို၍ (အို၊ ခ်မ္းသာ၊ ေမွာင္) လာသည္။ grow old(er)/ rich(er)/ small (er)/ weak(er) ❍ It began to grow dark. ❍ I grew tired of waiting, and left. ၄။ ~ sth (from sth) (အပင္) စိုက္သည္။ (မုတ္ဆိတ္) ေမြးထားသည္။ grow roses ❍ grow a beard ❍ grow onions from seed. See also HOME-GROWN ၅။ ပို၍ (အားထား၊ ခ်စ္ခင္ စသည္) လာသည္။ He grew increasingly to rely on her. ❍ I became fonder of her as I grew to know her better. ❏ grow apart (from sb) [ PHRV ] (no passive) ကင္းကြာသည္။ grow apart from old school-friends. ❏ grow away from sb [ PHRV ] (no passive) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ကင္းကြာသည္။ When she left school she started to grow away from her mother. ❏ grower n ၁ ။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိးသူ။ rose growers ❍ I buy wine from a local grower. ၂။ အတက္ (ေႏွးေသာ၊ ျမန္ေသာ) အပင္။ a quick grower. ❏ growing adj တိုးလာေသာ။ တိုးပြားလာေသာ။ ႀကီးထြား လာေသာ။ his growing indifference to her ❍ a growing problem ❍ a club with a growing membership. ❏ growing pains n [pl] ၁။ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား အထြားျမန္၍ ခံစားရေလ့ရိွေသာ အေၾကာအျခင္ နာက်င္ျခင္း။ ႀကီးေကာင္နာ။ ၂။ လုပ္ငန္းအစပ်ဳိးခ်ိန္၌ ႀကံဳရေလ့ရိွေသာ ျပႆနာမ်ား။ The business is still suffering from growing pains. ❏ grow into sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) ၁။ တျဖည္းျဖည္း… ျဖစ္လာသည္။ She is growing into a beautiful young woman. ❍ He has grown into a dreadful old bore. ၂။ ထြားလာၿပီး (အဝတ္အစားႏွင့္) ေတာ္သြား (မည္)။ The coat's too big for him now, but he'll grow into it. ၃။ အသားက် လာသည္။ She is a good actress, but she still needs time to grow into the part she is playing. ❏ grow on sb (no passive) [ PHRV ] အစတြင္ မႀကိဳက္လွ ေသာ္လည္း တစ္စတစ္စ ခင္တြယ္သြားသည္။ His music grows on you, I find. ❏ (not) grow on trees [ IDM ] လြယ္လြယ္ႏွင့္မရ။ You spend too much __ money doesn't grow on trees, you know. ❏ grow out of sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထြားလာ၍ မေတာ္ေတာ့။ grow out of one's clothes. ၂။ (အသက္အရြယ္ႏွင့္) မလိုက္ ေတာ့။ grow out of children's games. ၃။ (no passive) အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ (စိတ္ကူး) စရသည္။ The idea for the book grew out of a brief visit to India some years ago. ❏ grow up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႀကီးျပင္းလာသည္။ အရြယ္ ေရာက္ လာသည္။ She's growing up fast. ❍ Oh, grow up (ie Behave in a more mature way)! Compare GROWN UP ၂။ ရွင္သန္သည္။ ႀကီးထြားသည္။ A close friendship gradually grew up between them.

Examples

1. ‘Hasn’t Michael grown?’ said my aunt.
2. [grow several inches/a lot/very tall etc] : She must have grown at least four inches since I saw her last.
3. [grow to a size/height/length] : In the right conditions
4. shellfish can grow to considerable sizes.
5. Some of these creatures grew to a length of over 12 feet.
6. [fully grown] : A fully grown lion
7. Plants that grow naturally in peat bogs
8. The redwood tree can grow over 80 metres tall.
9. [grow to maturity] : We left some of the better trees and let them grow to maturity.
10. The trees grew almost to the water’s edge.
11. The country’s largest rice-growing area
12. They grew all their own vegetables.
13. Various crops are grown here.
14. [grow something from something] : I’ve grown these geraniums from seed.
15. The problem continues to grow.
16. The world’s population was growing faster than predicted.
17. By 1997
18. the town had grown big enough to need a school of its own.
19. [grow to] : A ripple of laughter that grew to a delighted roar
20. [grow longer] : The waiting list for housing is growing longer every year.
21. [grow in size/number/amount] : The database will grow in size as necessary.
22. [grow at a fast/record etc rate] : By now the road network was growing at an alarming rate.
23. In the early part of the century
24. the industry grew steadily.
25. [grow by 10%/20% etc] : The economy has grown by 7% over the past year.
26. He has spent the past seven years growing his business.
27. She could feel the anger growing inside her.
28. Fears were growing for his safety.
29. People need to be able to grow and develop in relationships.
30. The nights were growing darker.
31. Nina was growing bored.
32. The king grew increasingly suspicious of his officials.
33. [grow used to/accustomed to] : Branson had grown accustomed to the old man’s eccentricities.