Cultivate vs. Grow

Cultivateverb

To grow plants, notably crops

‘Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.’;

Growverb

(ergative) To become bigger.

‘Children grow quickly.’;

Cultivateverb

To nurture; to foster; to tend.

‘They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.’;

Growverb

(intransitive) To appear or sprout.

‘Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.’; ‘A long tail began to grow from his backside.’;

Cultivateverb

To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

Growverb

(transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

‘He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.’; ‘Have you ever grown your hair before?’;

Cultivateverb

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

Growverb

(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.

‘The boy grew wise as he matured.’; ‘The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.’; ‘You have grown strong.’;

Cultivateverb

To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.

‘Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.’;

Growverb

To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

Cultivateverb

To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.

‘I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly.’;

Growverb

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; - said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

Cultivateverb

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.

‘To cultivate the wild, licentious savage.’; ‘The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end.’;

Growverb

To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

‘Winter began to grow fast on.’; ‘Even just the sum that I do owe to youIs growing to me by Antipholus.’;

Cultivateverb

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

Growverb

To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

‘Where law faileth, error groweth.’;

Cultivateverb

foster the growth of

Growverb

To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

‘For his mindHad grown Suspicion's sanctuary.’;

Cultivateverb

prepare for crops;

‘Work the soil’; ‘cultivate the land’;

Growverb

To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

‘Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.’; ‘These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.’;

Cultivateverb

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

‘Cultivate your musical taste’; ‘Train your tastebuds’; ‘She is well schooled in poetry’;

Growverb

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

Cultivateverb

adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;

‘domesticate oats’; ‘tame the soil’;

Growverb

pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;

‘The weather turned nasty’; ‘She grew angry’;

Growverb

become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain;

‘The problem grew too large for me’; ‘Her business grew fast’;

Growverb

increase in size by natural process;

‘Corn doesn't grow here’; ‘In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees’;

Growverb

cause to grow or develop;

‘He grows vegetables in his backyard’;

Growverb

develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;

‘He matured fast’; ‘The child grew fast’;

Growverb

come into existence; take on form or shape;

‘A new religious movement originated in that country’; ‘a love that sprang up from friendship’; ‘the idea for the book grew out of a short story’; ‘An interesting phenomenon uprose’;

Growverb

cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;

‘The Bordeaux region produces great red wines’; ‘They produce good ham in Parma’; ‘We grow wheat here’; ‘We raise hogs here’;

Growverb

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

‘He grew a beard’; ‘The patient developed abdominal pains’; ‘I got funny spots all over my body’; ‘Well-developed breasts’;

Growverb

grow emotionally or mature;

‘The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten’; ‘When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior’;

Growverb

become attached by or as if by the process of growth;

‘The tree trunks had grown together’;

Growverb

(of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically

‘he would watch Nick grow to manhood’; ‘grown men don't act so stupidly’;

Growverb

(of a plant) germinate and develop

‘morels grow in a variety of places’;

Growverb

cause (plants) to germinate and develop

‘more land was needed to grow crops for export’;

Growverb

allow or cause (a part of the body) to grow or develop

‘if a newt's leg is amputated, it will grow a new one’; ‘she grew her hair long’;

Growverb

(of something abstract) come into existence and develop

‘a school of painting grew up in Cuzco’; ‘the play grew out of a drama school project’;

Growverb

become larger or greater over a period of time; increase

‘turnover grew to more than $100,000 within three years’;

Growverb

develop or expand (something, especially a business)

‘entrepreneurs who are struggling to grow their businesses’;

Growverb

become gradually or increasingly

‘sharing our experiences we grew braver’;

Growverb

(of a person) come to feel or think something over time

‘supposing we had grown to know and love nuclear power’;