Glowed vs Growed - What's the difference?
glowed | growed |
(glow)
To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
To radiate some emotional quality like light.
* Dryden
* Alexander Pope
To gaze especially passionately at something.
To radiate thermal heat.
To shine brightly and steadily.
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, title= To make hot; to flush.
* Shakespeare
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
* Addison
* John Gay
The state of a glowing object.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
(US, dialect) (grow)
(ergative) To become bigger.
To appear or sprout.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
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(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between glowed and growed
is that glowed is past tense of glow while growed is past tense of grow.glowed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*glow
English
Verb
(en verb)- With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
- Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
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- Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
- Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
- The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
Noun
(-)- The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
- He had a bright red glow on his face.
Anagrams
*growed
English
Verb
(head)grow
English
Verb
- Children grow quickly.
- Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
- A long tail began to grow from his backside.
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- He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
- Have you ever grown your hair before?
- The boy grew wise as he matured.
- The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
- You have grown strong.
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow .