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
Martha	MAHR-thə (English)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Lat
Hevel	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Parthenope	-	Greek Mythology
Basemath	-	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Manu (3)	MAH-noo	Finnish
Brigham	BRIG-əm	English (Rare)