Grow Up Meaning

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phrasal verb

Definition of grow up. Intransitive verb. 1a: to grow toward or arrive at full stature or physical or mental maturity: to progress from childhood toward adulthood growing up intellectually grew up in the city also: to become an adult She wants to be a doctor when she grows up.

  • 1Become an adult.

    • ‘Longing to be an adult is part of growing up, part of the normal expression of most children's fantasy lives.’
    • ‘Would it be better to treat children like adults while they are growing up?’
    • ‘Not surprisingly, when these children grow up to be young adults, they do just that.’
    • ‘As the surviving children grow up into adults, we must feel eternally grateful that they are here.’
    • ‘He grew up as a cringing youth, and eventually became a bank robber and had to flee the country.’
    • ‘Milk teeth are replaced by permanent, adult teeth as a child grows up.’
    • ‘Though they seem to grow up faster, their transition into adult life is being delayed.’
    • ‘We hope each generation will grow up to be better and kinder adults than the last.’
    • ‘Of course, he'd grown up with it, and people who grew up with it tended to take it for granted.’
    • ‘A healthy baby is born but as he grows up he begins to show disturbing behaviour and they regret their actions.’
    1. 1.1often in imperativeBegin to behave or think sensibly.
      • ‘On the day when it begins to discipline itself with a self-denying ordinance we shall know it has begun to grow up.’
      • ‘Just as childhood friendships fall apart when one friend grows up faster than the other, it couldn't make the leap to next generation consoles.’
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