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English

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grow up (third-person singular simple presentgrows up,present participlegrowing up,simple pastgrew up,past participlegrown up)

(intransitive) Tomature and become anadult.
What do you want to be when yougrow up?
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, inRAIL, number947, page58:
  I'm in the place where Igrew up, where my alma mater is.
(intransitive) To start to develop; toflourish.
Socialismgrew up in the industrial cities.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection).
Will yougrow up please, and stop making silly faces?

Synonyms

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(to mature):age,upgrow; see alsoThesaurus:to age
(to start to develop):blossom,prosper

Derived terms

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grown up

Translations

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to mature and become an adult

Arabic:كَبُرَ (ar)(kabura),ْنَشَأ(našaʔ)
Hijazi Arabic:كِبِر(kibir)
Azerbaijani:böyümək (az),başa-boya çatmaq,yetişmək (az)
Catalan:créixer (ca),fer-se gran
Chinese:
Mandarin:長大 /长大 (zh)(zhǎngdà)
Czech:vyrůst (cs) pf,dospět (cs) pf
Danish:vokse op,blive voksen
Dutch:opgroeien (nl)
Esperanto:plenkreski,plenaĝiĝi,elkreski
Finnish:kasvaa aikuiseksi
French:grandir (fr)
Galician:crecer (gl),medrar (gl)
German:erwachsen (de),aufwachsen (de)
Greek:μεγαλώνω (el)(megalóno)
Hebrew:גָּדַל (he)(gadál)
Hungarian:felnő (hu)
Ido:adulteskar (io)
Irish:éirigh suas
Italian:crescere (it)
Japanese:成長する (ja)(せいちょうする, seichō-suru),大人に成る(おとなになる, otona ni naru)
Latin:alescō,adolescō
Ngazidja Comorian:uhulia(with an adverbial phrase),uwangushia(with an adverbial phrase)
Norwegian:vokse opp,bli voksen
Old English:geweaxan
Persian:بالیدن (fa)(bâlidan)(literally),رشدادن
Polish:dorastać (pl)
Portuguese:crescer (pt)
Russian:расти́ (ru) impf(rastí),выраста́ть (ru) impf(vyrastátʹ),вы́расти (ru) pf(výrasti)
Serbo-Croatian:òdrāsti (sh) pf,о̀дра̄сти pf,odrástati (sh) impf,одра́стати impf
Slovak:dospieť pf,vyrásť pf
Spanish:crecer (es)
Swedish:växa upp (sv),bli vuxen
Telugu:పెరుగు (te)(perugu)
Turkish:büyümek (tr),yetişmek (tr)

to flourish

Finnish:kehittyä (fi)
Hungarian:kifejlődik (hu)
Italian:fiorire (it),attecchire (it),crescere (it),svilupparsi (it)
Portuguese:crescer (pt)
Swedish:växa fram (sv),växa upp (sv),blomstra (sv)

idiomatic: to stop acting as a child

Catalan:créixer (ca)
Danish:vokse op,blive voksen
Finnish:kasvaa aikuiseksi,aikuistua (fi)
Hungarian:felnőttként viselkedik
Italian:comportarsi da adulto
Portuguese:crescer (pt)
Spanish:madurar (es)
Swedish:växa upp (sv)
Turkish:büyümek (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French:^{(pleaseverify)}grandir (fr)

Interjection

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grow up

(imperative)Used to criticizechildish behavior, especially that considered unreasonable for one's age.
You're giggling because I said "butt"?Grow up, seriously.
Grow up! TheBible is nothing more than aastrotheological allegory for things like theSun!