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How to spell grew
Grew is spelled G-R-E-W.
What it means: To increase in size or amount.
In a sentence: The little plant grew tall in the sunshine.
Same family: grows, growing, grown, growth, grown-up. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Grew” is the irregular past tense of “grow,” which comes from Old English “grōwan,” meaning “to flourish or increase.” The word is related to old Germanic words for green plants, linking the idea of growing with the color and life of plants.
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