grown
part of speech
verb (past participle of grow: grow, grows, grew, grown, growing); adjective (grown — adult, fully developed)
meaning for a pupil
1) The form of "grow" used after have/has/had or in the passive: "She has grown taller." "Rice is grown in China." tree →
2) As an adjective, adult: "a grown man", "grown-ups". tree →
sense in the lessons
In science: plants have grown from seeds; animals grow to become grown adults. In everyday life, "grown-up" means an adult who can help. Phrases: grown-up, fully grown, home-grown, has grown, overgrown.
examples
- But if the scall stay in its appearance, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (Torah LEV.13.37, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. (Torah EXO.2.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law: 'Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up'; for he said: 'Lest he also die, like his brethren.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. (Torah GEN.38.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.' (Prophets 2SA.10.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. (Prophets 2KI.4.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace; (Writings PSA.144.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- The puppy has grown so big. tree →
- These tomatoes were grown in our garden. tree →
- Ask a grown-up for help. tree →
- A fully grown elephant is very heavy. tree →
- You've grown two centimetres since last year. tree →
- The garden was overgrown with weeds. tree →
- Wheat is grown on big farms. tree →
- A Lion had grown very old. tree →
note
"Grow, grew, grown" — do not say "growed". "Grown" needs a helper: "has grown", "was grown". In maths problems "has grown by 5 cm" means add 5 cm to the old height.
In the corpora
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
- And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
- Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word.
- It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «grown» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.