grow up
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grow up
Where it comes from
Dissimilated from Middle English upgrowen.
verb grows up · growing up · grew up · grown up
- To mature and become an adult. What do you want to be when you grow up?
- To start to develop; to flourish. Socialism grew up in the industrial cities.
- To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection). Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?
interjection
- Used to criticize childish behavior, especially that considered unreasonable for one's age. You're giggling because I said "butt"? Grow up, seriously.
