grow into

British  

verb

1. (intr, preposition) to become big or mature enough for

   his clothes were always big enough for him to grow into

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grow into Idioms  

1. Develop so as to become, as in The army makes a boy grow into a man . [Mid-1500s]

2. Develop or change so as to fit, as in He'll soon grow into the next shoe size , or She has grown into her job . [Early 1800s]

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Example Sentences

"The resulting electric fields would generate such strong forces that the gold atoms becoming mobile would gradually grow into the optically active material," Pflaum continues.

From Science Daily

Chelsea were starting to grow into the game before Timber's crucial goal, while they needed goalkeeper David Raya to produce some excellent saves to deny the sixth-placed Blues a point.

From BBC

The lifestyle tax havens often lack the civic commitment that allowed places like New York, London, Paris or Chicago to grow into fuller-spectrum cities.

From The Wall Street Journal

OpenAI just raked in $110 billion through a funding round that values it at $730 billion — but the ChatGPT maker must spend heavily to grow into that valuation.

From MarketWatch

“At this pace it won’t take long for U.S. equities to grow into their current valuations, resetting them to near pre-Covid levels,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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