Word family noun grower growth undergrowth outgrowth overgrowth adjective growing grown overgrown verb grow outgrow
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgrowngrown1 /ɡrəʊn $ ɡroʊn/ verb XXthe past participle of growgrowngrown2 adjective 1 → grown man/woman2 → grown children/daughter/sonExamples from the Corpus
grown• He had been a grown man with a small but independent income when he had taken Minnie instead of her to wife.• People divorced, left each other - grown men and women who reached the decision to part. 