grow to understand something

grow to understand something
if you grow to feel or understand something, you gradually start to feel or understand it

They had grown to love the place and the people.

He had grown to realize that she would never change.

Thesaurus: to feel an emotionsynonym to understand somethingsynonym
Main entry: grow

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