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Antonyms for grow:


verb become larger, evolve

cease
compress
contract
decline
decrease
demolish
destroy
diminish
drop
fail
halt
ignore
languish
lessen
lose
lower
narrow
neglect
raze
recede
reduce
repress
retreat
ruin
shrink
stop
abridge
condense
curtail
hold
keep
shorten
stunt

Examples of uses:

Unlike his head, it just seems to grow and grow and grow.
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You'll grow out of comic books and grow into wanting to be rich.
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Now it will grow grow at a greatly accelerated rate.
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Babies starve, politicians grow fat holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion.
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Xiri saw a beautiful dewdrop grow, and when it dropped another one began to grow in its place.
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Albuquerque could grow into a big city someday, and you could grow with it.
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If you're gonna grow crops on it, why can't I grow crops just the same as I did for Captain John?
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As times change we hope to grow, and as we grow our rules must change. It is a natural part of evolution. Thank you.
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You're gonna get yourself up right now. Devon, I want her to grow up- grow up optimis- confident, like you.
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The liquor business is gonna grow big, and it's gonna grow fast.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

Synonyms for grow:

age