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Growing

adjective

1.

Relating to or suitable for growth. "Good growing weather"

noun

1.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

2.

(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state.

Grow

verb

(past grew; past part. grown ; pres. part. growing)

1.

Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become. Synonym: turn. "She grew angry"

2.

Become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain. "Her business grew fast"

3.

Increase in size by natural process. "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees" , "Her hair doesn't grow much anymore"

4.

Cause to grow or develop.

5.

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation. Synonyms: maturate, mature. "The child grew fast"

6.

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7.

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. Synonyms: farm, produce, raise. "They produce good ham in Parma" , "We grow wheat here" , "We raise hogs here"

8.

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes). Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce. "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"

9.

Grow emotionally or mature. Synonym: develop. "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"

10.

Become attached by or as if by the process of growth.

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"Growing" Quotes from Famous Books

... been growing up and growing old, a bountiful Providence had granted a new poet to this earth. He, likewise, was a native of the valley, but had spent the greater part of his life at a distance from that romantic region, pouring out his sweet music amid the bustle ...

— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... in wave upon frozen wave like water piled ragged by some terrific gale, with the tops of the waters torn and tossed and then frozen forever in that position, like a fantastic and gargantuan mask of dreaming terror. It overawed the heart of Mary Brown to look up to them, but there was growing in her a new impulse of friendly understanding with all this scalped, bald region of rocks, as if in entering the valley she had passed through the gate which closes out the gentler world, and now she was admitted as a denizen ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... of the dramatic was sinking, the wave of the lyric was growing in force and rising in height. Especially as regards religious poetry we are as yet only approaching the lyrical jubilee. Fact and faith, self-consciousness and metaphysics, all are needful to the lyric of love. Modesty and art find their grandest, simplest labour ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... of that 100 years saw the dawn of that system of free government which has grown and flourished, and which, if the men of the present day be the worthy descendants of Eliott and Pym, and Hampden and Milton, will go on growing as long as this realm lasts. Within that time, one of the strangest phenomena which I think I may say any nation has ever manifested arose to its height and fell—I mean that strange and altogether marvellous phenomenon, English Puritanism. Within that ...

— William Harvey And The Discovery Of The Circulation Of The Blood • Thomas H. Huxley

... growing alarming,' reasoned Mr. Pickwick with himself. 'I can't allow things to go on in this way. By the self-possession of that lady, it is clear to me that I must have come into the wrong room. If I call out she'll alarm the house; but if I remain ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

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