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grown

verb
/ɡɹəʊn/UK/ɡɹoʊn/US/ˈɡɹɐʉn/

Etymology

From Middle English growen. Morphologically grow + -n.

  1. inherited from growen

Definitions

  1. past participle of grow

  2. Covered by growth

    Covered by growth; overgrown.

    • What once was a farm was grown with trees.

  3. Of a person

    Of a person: adult.

    • grown woman/man/adult
    • Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.

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Derived

Empire-grown, full-grown, fully-grown, grass-grown, grownish, grown-up, grown-up-ness, grown-upness, half-grown, high-grown, homegrown, home-grown, ingrown, intergrown, lab-grown, liver-grown, lung-grown, moss-grown, mossgrown, pregrown, regrown, undergrown, ungrown, weedgrown

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grown. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grown. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at grown

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA