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Grow up

To mature and become an adult.

📖 Definitions of "Grow up"

verb
  1. 1

    To mature and become an adult.

    "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

  2. 2

    To start to develop; to flourish.

    "Socialism grew up in the industrial cities."

  3. 3

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

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

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