growen

growen

1. (obsolete) past participle of grow
   • 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death‎:

     Our soule deliuered out of this foule & filthie prison, where, by long continuing it is growen into an habite of crookednes, shall againe draw her owne breath, recognize her ancient dwelling, and againe remember her former glory & dignity.

• grew on, growne, wonger, wronge

• growe, grow, groue, grewe

From Old English grōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔu̯ən/

growen

1. To grow (usually of plants, fruit, etc.):
   1. To spring up; grow from nothing.
   2. (often of people) to grow up; to mature.
   3. To come into existence; to arise.
2. To increase; to magnify:
   1. To increase in amount; to multiply.
   2. To increasingly take on an attribute.
   3. To become stronger or more powerful.
   4. (of plants) To thrive; to flourish.
3. To become older; to age.
4. (finance) To go or pass (to, of money)
5. To exist; to be present (somewhere)

• Weak forms are sometimes found, as in dialectal Modern English.
• The causative sense ("cause to grow, make grow") so common in Modern English grow is almost nonexistent in growen.

• English: grow
• Scots: grow

• “grouen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.