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What does grow up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word grow up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To start to develop; to flourish.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection).
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It is a bit ironic how all little girls want to do is grow up and all adults want to do is be young again.
As the surviving children grow up into adults, we must feel eternally grateful that they are here.
Do you want me to grow up to be nothing more than poor white trash with no musical ability whatsoever?
Looking back, it was a great place in which to grow up but, with my way-out lifestyle, I can't see myself living there now.
Like its cultivated successors, the wild vine is a climbing plant which needs to grow up some support.
He hoped to spoil the youngsters and watch them grow up to become adults he could be proud of.

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