growed
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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"Meat oughta be growed on a farm, out in the fields," declares Jerry Kimrey, a construction worker from Lebanon, Missouri.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2018
“He done growed like a weed over the summer,” said his grandmother, Janice Stroud, who last saw her grandson over Christmas.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018
“Then Kenny growed too big and my dad said to me, ‘Joe, you’re going to be the rider.’
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013
I'm all growed up now, so I can't pretend to understand teenage behaviour, nor the seemingly Cambrian explosion of music and social subcultures that happened since the simplicity of that no doubt misremembered era.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2012
Maybe, she thought, they had gone off and seeded the land and growed up in these young people in the dime store with the cash-register keys around their necks.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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