Grown and Older

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Grown adjective - Covered with a thick healthy natural growth.

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Older and grown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Older" instead an adjective "Grown".

Nearby Words: grow, growth, growing

Older adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

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Grown and older are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grown" instead an adjective "Older".

Rangi is the mother of Angus Fangus (a full grown adult, probably in his forties) in Paperinik New Adventures, but she doesn't look much older than him.

Source: Older Than They Look / Comic Books
If Her Flag Breaks: School elder Tsumugi Ryuukishibara looks like a young child, complete with bonnet; in truth, she was once a fully-grown woman, but shrank to her current height as she got older.

Source: Older Than They Look / Anime and Manga
Her suitor is a middle-aged widower with grown-up children, though, and such men often married women older than would be considered eligible as first wives.

Source: Literature / Howards End

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