grow up Copy link Outline 1. ădŏlesco, lēvi, ădultum, 3 (to attain to maturity)2. pūbesco, 3 (strictly to arrive at puberty)3. excresco, 3 (to g. to a height)4. succresco (strictly to g. up from under)5. accresco, 3 • grow up: 1. ădŏlesco, lēvi, ădultum, 3 (to attain to maturity): when the children have g.n up, quum liberi adoleverint, Caes.: a g.n-up maiden, adulta virgo, Liv.: see also to grow (A, I, 3). 2. pūbesco, 3 (strictly to arrive at puberty): Hercules when he was just g.ing up to be a man, H. quum primum pubesceret, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: things which spring out of the earth g. up and attain to maturity, p. maturitatemque assequuntur quae oriuntur e terra, Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4. 3. excresco, 3 (to g. to a height): more fully, in longitudinem [altitudinem] ex., Plin. 16, 30, 54: they g. up into these (stalwart) bodies which we wonder at, in haec corpora quae miramur excrescunt, Tac. G. 20, init. 4. succresco (strictly to g. up from under): comp. Cels. 7, 7, 8, pilorum alius ordo s., Cels. Also fig. to g. to a level with (with dat.): Cic.: Liv. 5. accresco, 3: to g. up with advancing years (of friendship), cum aetate ac. simul, Ter. And. 3, 3, 7.