grow to do

grow to do something

to gradually begin to do certain things, using verbs such as feel, know, like, need, respect, sense, suspect, think, want, wonder, etc. I grew to hate Bob over a period of years. As I grew to know Bob, I began to like him.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Meridith	MER-ə-dith	English (Rare)
Nomusa	-	Southern African, Ndebele
Atlas	['ætləs]
Gil (1)	HEEL (Spanish), ZHEEL (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese
Lucan	-	History
Menno	ME-no (German)	Dutch, German