upgrow

verb

upgrow

verb

/ʌpˈɡɹəʊ/

Etymology From up- + grow.

1

Archaic To grow up

  • Access deny'd ; and overhead upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Synonyms
age, mature

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