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| VERB: | 1. To come to be: become, come, get, turn (out), wax. See CHANGE. 2. To bring into existence and foster the development of: breed, cultivate, propagate, raise. See CARE FOR, REPRODUCTION. 3. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal : beef up. See INCREASE. 4. To bring or come to full development: age, develop, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen. See YOUTH.
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