get bigger

Increase in size

To get bigger is to increase in size, volume, or extent.

The phrase describes physical growth The puppy will get bigger over the next few months or expansion of abstract things The problem just keeps getting bigger.

It's the plain, everyday way to express what "enlarge" or "grow" say more formally.

Related

enlarge · bulk up · inflate · blow up · balloon · puff up · stretch · increase · bulge · mushroom · bloat · gain weight · widen · rise · amplify · magnify · fatten · thicken

Opposites
size change

get biggershrink

Decrease in size

contract · diminish · reduce · compress · condense

growth/development

get biggeratrophy

Wasting from disuse

wither · regress · decline · waste away · deteriorate

quantity/amount

get biggerdecrease

Become or make smaller

lessen · reduce · drop · fall · plummet

Family

get, gets, getting, big, bigger, biggest, bigness

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G