crescer

• crecer (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese crecer, from Latin crēscere (“to grow”), from Proto-Italic *krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow, become bigger”).

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾe.ˈse(h)/
• Hyphenation: cres‧cer

crescer (first-person singular present cresço, first-person singular preterite cresci, past participle crescido)

1. (intransitive) to grow (become bigger or taller)

   Synonyms: expandir, aumentar

   Antonyms: decrescer, diminuir

   Infelizmente, o tumor cresceu bastante.

   Unfortunately, the tumor has gotten much bigger.

2. (intransitive) to grow up (to become older)

   Synonym: medrar

   A criança crescerá e tornar-se-á um adulto.

   The child will grow up and become an adult.

3. (intransitive) to grow in number or extent

   Synonyms: aumentar, multiplicar, multiplicar-se, expandir, subir

   Antonyms: decrescer, diminuir, baixar

   A população romana cresceu durante o império.

   The Roman population grew during the empire.

4. (intransitive) to become more important (within a group or context)

   Seus comentários fizeram-na crescer na política internacional.

   Her comments made her more notorious in international politics.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crescer.

• crescente
• crescido
• crescimento

• Macanese: crecê

• “crescer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “crescer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “crescer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024