grow up

verb

To mature and become an adult. (intransitive) · What do you want to be when you grow up?· Attila grew up a nomad on the plains of Hungary
To start to develop; to flourish. (intransitive) · Socialism grew up in the industrial cities.· A town grew up at the junction of the two rivers.
To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection). (intransitive) · Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?

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But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world.”

Pride and Prejudice, p. 277 · B2

All grow up as geese and gabies,

A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 9 · C1

Do you suppose my hair will really be a handsome auburn when I grow up?”

Anne of Green Gables, p. 78 · C1

But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me.

Anne of Green Gables, p. 123 · C1

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