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grew up

vb. (en-simple pastgrow up)

Usage examples of "grew up".

I was afraid I'd be out of the best ones before I ever grew up and joined the Adult Conspiracy.

Larry is an army brat, and grew up in a family that was steeped in armed forces history.

He grew up in northern California and began writing while in seventh grade.

Little is known of this man, around whom a Merlin-like mythology grew up: it was said he could vanish in a flash of light.

He grew up overbearing, cruel, and dissolute, and with mature years his faults and vices only became more pronounced.

Some of me is in Mexico, the capital, though I am mostly still at home here in the village where I grew up, grew old, and died.