English-French translations for grow up

• grandir
  En fait, les parents ne supportent pas toujours de voir leurs enfants grandir. In fact, parents cannot always bear to see their children grow up.
  J'entends par là le droit de chaque enfant de grandir dans un environnement intact. By this I mean the right of every child to grow up in an intact environment.
  Ils ont également le droit de grandir pour devenir des adultes sains, à la fois de corps et d'âme. They also have the right to grow up to become healthy adults, both in body and soul.
• mûrir

Definition of grow up

• To mature and become an adult
• To start to develop; to flourish
• To stop acting as or like a child (often used as an imperative interjection

Examples

• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Socialism grew up in the industrial cities
• Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?

Related words

• grow stupid
• grown up
• grown up points
• grown-up
• upgrow
• upgrowth
• grownup
• adult; grown-up