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grew¹

  • /ɡɹuː/ UK
  • /ɡɹʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ɡɹu/ Canada, US
  • /ɡɹʉː/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ɡɾɪʊ/ Wales
  • /ɡɾʉ/ Scotland
  • /ɡɻʉ/ Northern Ireland

Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Middle English grew, from Old English grēow (first and third person past tense of grōwan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grerō, from Proto-Germanic *gegrō (first and third person past tense of *grōaną), reduplication of *grōaną.

verb

  1. past simple past of grow
  2. colloquial, nonstandard, participle, past past participle of grow

grew²

  • /ɡɹuː/ UK
  • /ɡɹʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ɡɹu/ Canada, US
  • /ɡɹʉː/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ɡɾɪʊ/ Wales
  • /ɡɾʉ/ Scotland
  • /ɡɻʉ/ Northern Ireland

Rhymes with -uː

verb grews · grewing · grewed

  1. alternative Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”).

Grew³

Where it comes from

Variant of Grewe.

proper noun Grews

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: outgrew, arose, went, took, became, came, won, dropped, passed, spent, rise, increase, growth, augmented, moved, experienced

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MLA

"grew." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/grew. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

grew. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/grew

Chicago

"grew." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/grew.

BibTeX
@misc{grew_2026,
  title = {grew},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grew},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}