Meaning of grow up in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To mature and become an adult.

  Example: What do you want to be when you grow up?

• To start to develop; to flourish.

  Example: Socialism grew up in the industrial cities.

• To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection).

  Example: Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?