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grow back

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grow back
[for something that has come off] to grow back again. (Includes parts of plants and some animals, fingernails, toenails, etc.) The lizard's tail grew back in a few months. The leaves will grow back in a month or so.
See also: back, grow


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In most cases, the hair will eventually grow back again entirely within 1 year without undergoing any treatment.
Libby, of Kingsteignton, Devon, has amazed her doctors who say livers very rarely grow back.
This uses a process labeled as Low Level Light Therapy, LLLT, to stroke and 'caress' the infected areas so that the dead skin cells fall off and fresh skin can grow back on the same spot.
 
 
 
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