grow up

• POS: Verb (intransitive)

THESAURUS

grow up

age, arise, ascend, attain majority, bear fruit, bloom, blossom, blow, brew, bring to maturity, burgeon, come of age, come to fruition, come to maturity, come up, curl upwards, develop, fledge, flourish, flower, gather, germinate, go up, grow, hypertrophy, increase, leave the nest, levitate, loom, maturate, mature, mellow, mount, mushroom, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, procreate, pullulate, reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, rear, rear up, reproduce, ripe, ripen, rise, rise up, season, settle down, shoot up, spiral, spire, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, temper, thrive, toga virilis, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upshoot, upspear, upspin, upspring, upsprout, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, vegetate, wax

ROGET THESAURUS

grow up

Expansion

VB become larger &c (large), expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather, fill out, deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread, mantle, wax, grow up, spring up, bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than, surpass, render larger &c (large), expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram, exaggerate, fatten.