intransitive. To grow forth, grow to excess, increase.

Of inanimate things: To increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity, etc. Of water, the sea: To rise, swell; to flow out in a flood. Of day or…

figurative. Of immaterial things: To spring up, come into existence as by natural process; to arise, originate, be developed as from a germ; to issue…

intransitive. Of a quantifiable factor or quality: to increase in amount, number, or degree; to amount or reach to a specified number or level…

intransitive. To grow greater, increase.

intransitive.

= increase, v. intransitive.

To become greater in size, amount, duration, or degree; to be enlarged, extended, or intensified; to wax, grow.

intransitive. To increase or grow by addition, to flourish; (also) to accrue.

intransitive. To become greater in number, size, or degree; to increase, grow, intensify.

intransitive. To become great or greater; to thicken, enlarge; to increase in size or (less commonly) intensity.

intransitive. To rise in amount or volume; to increase by addition, to pile up. Also: †to be amassed (obsolete). Frequently with up. Also figurative.

intransitive. To become larger or greater; to grow, to increase.

intransitive. To grow up, spring up; figurative to increase.

intransitive. Of a bill, account, debt, amount of money, etc.: to mount up, accumulate.

intransitive. To become greater in amount, volume, degree, intensity, or force: now only in immaterial sense (see also 6).

intransitive. With to. To make something greater or more extensive; esp. to make a feeling, quality, etc., more powerful or intense; to increase…

intransitive. Chiefly with to in early use. To increase by accretion, grow up.

intransitive. To become gross or great; to increase, amount. Obsolete.

to get (a) head: to gain force, momentum, power, or ascendancy; to become established. Cf. sense 56. Now rare.

intransitive. To rise, esp. in price or value; to increase; to mount up. In later use frequently with up. Cf. mount, v. 19b.

figurative. To increase.

intransitive. To grow by addition, to increase, esp. in age or number; to increase in age, to grow up. Cf. accresce, v. Obsolete.

intransitive. To become greater, increase; to advance, develop. Also with to, into. Obsolete (English regional (Lincolnshire) in later use).

intransitive. To become greater (in size, power, etc.); to increase. Obsolete.

intransitive. To be formed into a heap or mass; to increase in quantity; to build up.

intransitive. Of a profit, price, value, quota, etc.: to rise or increase. Now rare.

To rise in amount or degree.

intransitive. To reach a state of fullness, esp. for a second or further time; to become restored to a former state or condition; to fill up.

intransitive. To bend or point upwards; to have an upward direction. Also figurative. Cf. main sense 8c(b).