1. To cause to exist; bring into being. 4. To produce through artistic or imaginative effort.
2. To grow or tend. 3. To promote the growth of. 4. To nurture; foster. 5. To form and refine, as by education.
1. To go on with a particular action or in a particular condition; persist. 2. To exist over a prolonged period; last. -tr. 2. To carry further in time, space, or development; extend. 3. To cause to remain or last; retain.