grow on

phrasal verb

grew on; grown on; growing on; grows on

: to become more appealing to (someone) as time passes

Try the drink again—it grows on you.

I didn't like him at first, but he's starting to grow on me.

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However, this look really grew on us, and more than one tester wanted to take this tree home at the end of the day. —

Genevieve Cepeda, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024 The way population has declined on the north side, the way population has grown on the south side. —

Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024 Data shared exclusively with WIRED by the Tech Transparency Project shows that these groups have only continued to grow on Facebook, despite WIRED previously flagging this lapse in Meta’s moderation. —

Tess Owen, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024 These are tiny spherical plants that are only a few millimeters in diameter and in nature grow on the surface of ponds. —

Steven Savage, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for grow on