grow away from

grow away from someone

[for someone] to become less intimate with someone; [for someone] to become independent of someone gradually. She has grown away from her husband over the years. We expect our children to grow away from us.

grow away from something

[for something] to move away from something as it grows. The tree grew away from the house—thank heavens. See if you can train the vine to grow away from the fence.

See also: away, grow

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Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen had hit it with an arrow just on the top of its head where the mane begins to grow away from the skull, a very deadly place.

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The regions have to be able to build up their infrastructure and train their workforces in order to encourage economies to grow away from London.

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But they don't stand up well to a vigorous clean, so choose ones that grow away from main roads and above knee height.

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It has taken us a long while to grow away from that there's a lot further to grow yet.

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While talking to the Elle US magazine, the 23-year-old star said that there are actresses who have emerged in the last couple of years, and got to emerge as a complete human being, and she feels so jealous that they got to grow away from the spotlight.

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But as we grow up, many of us grow away from participating in music.

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On the other hand and in order to bypass the sanctions we can try to focus on the medium-size industries and make it possible for the sectors that have not yet received due attention a chance to grow away from the sensitivities surrounding the number and figures of foreign investment .

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Although communication tools keep increasing more and more and communication has become easier and faster, ironically, people get lonelier and grow away from normality.

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We want to provide more points of sales and better service levels to our customers as we continue to grow away from our core California market.

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And in doing so, they will also grow away from me and their dad.

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Cut approximately a third of the branch and cut back to just above an outward facing bud, this bud will produce a side shoot in the spring which will grow away from the centre of the tree.

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Because however far our little boys might grow away from us in life they never, ever leave our hearts.

A son's love never dies.

Also, quirky narrative offshoots spontaneously grow away from the movie's main stem of straight chronology.

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Our field can and should grow away from his particular views, as it should from the views of any senior scholar who has taught his juniors well.

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Once established, these plants produce long rhizomes under the soil, which grow away from the main plant.