To assume a condition or quality over time.
To appear or sprout.
To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
To develop, to mature.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.