Grow and Return

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Grow

Grow verb - To become mature.
Usage example: you've grown so much since we last saw each other
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Return is an antonym for grow.
Nearby Words: growth, growing, grown, grower

Return

Return verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Usage example: vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways
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Synonyms for Return
Antonyms for Return
Grow is an antonym for return.
Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner
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Common collocations

heart grow heart return heart
soul grow soul return soul
fire grow fire return fire
power grow power return power
Other words: life, people, thanks, body, pair, time, feelings, times, powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Desolate Era As they grow up, the memories of their previous life, along with the abilities that they learned during it, return to them.
    Source: Literature / Desolate Era
  • Honorable Elephant He feels morally obligated to return a human baby to his family even though he knows that the child could one day grow up to be a mammoth-killer.
    Source: Honorable Elephant
  • And when you kill the messengers, they can't return their miniature televisions, which it may surprise you don't grow naturally on their chests.
    Source: Webcomic / Team Fortress 2
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