different between grow vs widen
grow
English
Etymology
From Middle English growen, from Old English gr?wan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?an? (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow, become green”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????/, [??????]
- (US) IPA(key): /??o?/, [???o??]
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
grow (third-person singular simple present grows, present participle growing, simple past grew or (dialectal) growed, past participle grown or (dialectal) growed)
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grow.
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grow.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grow.
Antonyms
- shrink
Derived terms
Translations
References
- grow at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Verb
grow
- Alternative form of growen
grow From the web:
- what growing zone am i in
- what grows well with tomatoes
- what grows well with strawberries
- what growing zone is ohio
- what grows well with cucumbers
- what growing zone is michigan
- what grows on palm trees
- what growing zone is minnesota
widen
English
Etymology
From wide +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?d?n/
- Rhymes: -a?d?n
Verb
widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)
- (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
- (transitive) To make wide or wider.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- Antonym: narrow
- to widen a
short
variable to anint
variable
Derived terms
- widenable
Translations
Anagrams
- Edwin, Wendi, dwine, indew, winde, wined
widen From the web:
- what widens blood vessels
- what widens your hips
- what widens a confidence interval
- what widens a parabola
- what widened pulse pressure
- what widens
- what widens hips
- what widens your blood vessels
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