It is not wrong to refer to the USA as âAmerica,â nor is it wrong to refer to the people of the USA as âAmericans.â For one thing, we are the only country that actually has the word âAmericaâ in our name.
verb (used without object), grew, grown, growing. 1. to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance. 2. to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, as by crystallization.
To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development: a bioreactor seeded with bacteria. 4. Medicine To cause (cells or a tumor, for example) to grow or multiply. 5. Meteorology To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.