When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.

If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.

If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.

When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.

If someone grows their hair, or grows a beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can also grow your nails.

If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.

You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.

If an amount, feeling, or problem grows, it becomes greater or more intense.

If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.

If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.

If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.

If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance.

If a crystal grows, or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.