Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other.grown1 verbgrown2 adjective
growngrown1 /ɡrəʊn $ ɡroʊn/ verb 
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other. I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave. The company’s exports have grown steadily.
the past participle of grow Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other. I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave. The company’s exports have grown steadily.grown1 verbgrown2 adjective
growngrown2 adjective EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
- People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.
Longman Language Activatoradult
someone who is no longer a child - use this to talk about someone who is at least 18: · The cost of the trip is $59 for adults and $30 for children.· Since I left school, my parents have started to treat me like an adult.· Children cannot be admitted to the museum unless they are accompanied by an adult.
an adult - used especially by children or when you are talking to children: · Grown-ups are so boring! All they ever do is talk!· At home there was always a grown-up to turn to if you were in trouble.
an adult man or woman - used especially when you think someone is not behaving in the way an adult should behave: · Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.· He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!· She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
a full-grown or fully grown animal has reached its full adult size: · A full-grown blue whale may be up to 30 metres long.· Many of these animals die before they are fully grown.· Will my tank be big enough for all these fish when they are fully grown?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other. I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave. The company’s exports have grown steadily.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other. I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave. The company’s exports have grown steadily.· Two methods can be used, both requiring a healthy and fully grown leaf from your selected plant.· Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted, and were found laid out in the direction of the blast.· A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.· The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.· It is the largest living bird - a fully grown male weighing 140 kilograms and reaching 2.5 metres in height.· I would like to put a fully grown male in with her.· A kitten requires three times more nourishment, relative to body weight, than a fully grown cat.· All the corpses he examined were those of adults - of fully grown men.
· A farming ideal too, organically grown produce, means the family are self sufficient.· Fans of organic wine will be pleased to see two new choices made from organically grown grapes.
NOUN· Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.· Take Reg Holdsworth for instance: grown men don't act so stupid.· Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.· The Hall of Power - where little boys and grown men delight in pressing buttons - is vastly popular.· He was a grown man, in full possession of his civil rights.· And there's a grown man sitting on the floor over there.· People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part.· He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.
· She hunted herself, putting aside all those pictures in which she appeared - not as child but as a grown woman.· There's a quasi-religious, Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer.· A fully grown woman, the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man's.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
- Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
- He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
- She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
- And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
- I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
- In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
- Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
- No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
- Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
- Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
- She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
- I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
- See more of his grown daughter and son.
- Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
- Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
- The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
- Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
WORD FAMILYnoungrowergrowthundergrowthoutgrowthovergrowthadjectivegrowinggrownovergrownverbgrowoutgrow
1grown man/woman an adult man or woman, used especially when you think someone is not behaving as an adult should: Who ever heard of a grown man being scared of the dark?2grown children/daughter/son children etc who are now adults: I’ve got two grown daughters and a son.