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Answer for the clue "Become bigger ", 4 letters:
grow

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Old English growan (of plants) "to grow, flourish, increase, develop, get bigger" (class VII strong verb; past tense greow , past participle growen ), from Proto-Germanic *gro- (cognates: Old Norse groa , Old Frisian groia , Dutch groeien , Old High German ...

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It was growing late, and as the shadows blackened he walked faster, till once more the lane began to descend, there was a sharp turn, and he found himself, with a good deal of relief, and a little disappointment, on familiar ground.

When I held to my oath, then he demanded if I would be satisfied with but one raid against Aberdeen and would then subside, let my hair grow long, and participate in the activities of women.

His lack of an heir other than Abraham began to preoccupy him to the extent where he grew morbid and introspective.

Hazard smiled at the vivid imagery, warmed by the poignant memories of his growing up time, when this land was Absarokee land.

He was surprised at their manners and at their accents, and his brow grew thoughtful.

That the consumption of cacao is expected to grow greater yet in the immediate future is reflected in the prices of raw cacao, which, as soon as they were no longer fixed by the Government, rose rapidly, thus Accra cacao rose from 65s.

Onol of Aceta, to imagine myself a grown man with a job to do, not in a business suit in the rusty dusty America of 1964, but a man with a sword and diadem, inspecting the fabulous mines of Aceta, the City on the Mountain, on a vast, faraway world you could see most nights as a brilliant diamond gleam in the sky, Onol of Jupiter.

The Acoma cow already has the upper hand and she continues to grow stronger.

The furnishings Adams grew up with were of the plainest kind--a half dozen ordinary wooden chairs, a table, several beds, a looking glass or two.

For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.

THE PRESSURES or RESPONSIBILITY grew greater for Adams almost by the hour.

Turning the situation over and over in his mind, Adams only grew more downcast.

OCCASIONS AT COURT grew increasingly tedious and strained for Adams and his family.

The suspicion that Adams was a monarchist at heart grew stronger, and understandably, as in his Defence of the Constitutions of Government he did seem to lean in that direction.

For all that Philadelphia had grown and changed, it was familiar territory for Adams, filled with memories.