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vb. (en-simple pastgrow on)
Usage examples of "grew on".
A light network of marine plants, of that inexhaustible family of seaweeds of which more than two thousand kinds are known, grew on the surface of the water.
The Z-13 accelerated at maximum and the faint speck of light that was the grey globe where Cadet Tifflor and his people had sought refuge, grew on the picture screen.
Obi-Wan blinked, startled, as similar faces grew on two of the other spheres.
Each in turn came to them and laid a wreath around their necks, the three intertwined colors of vegetation from three worlds that grew on Wunderland now: red, green and orange.
A large estate grew on the screen: a mansion amid acres of immaculately trimmed lawns and flower beds.
The second one was to bring her a branch from the jeweled trees that grew on the floating mountain of Horai.
The only trace of hair upon his countenance grew on the shrunken upper lip —.
Its surface was pebbled and dimpled like a scorpion's carapace and matched the wearer's shape, for each suit custom-grew on a lucky recipient, and would neither fit nor function for anyone else.
Pale colored fish and other aquatic creatures surrounded the city on all sides, the algae that grew on the force field a constant source of food.
At the rate vegetation grew on Ireta, the cave ought to be densely screened in a matter of weeks.
A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottage from view, as seem to denote that here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed.