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GROWING definition: becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity. See examples of growing used in a sentence.
There is a growing awareness of the importance of recycling. We have had to hire five more employees to meet growing demand.
A growing thing (or person) is in the process of developing, often by getting bigger. You can argue for a second helping of cake by saying, "I'm a growing kid!"
Usage Note: Grow is most often used as an intransitive verb, as in The corn grew fast or Our business has been growing steadily for 10 years. This use dates back to the Middle Ages. In the 1700s, a transitive sense arose with the meaning "to produce or cultivate," as in We grow corn in our garden.
grow /ɡrəʊ/ vb (grows, growing, grew /ɡruː/, grown /ɡrəʊn/) (of an organism or part of an organism) to increase in size or develop (hair, leaves, or other structures)
Find 61 different ways to say GROWING, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger. The raising of plants. The growing season here begins in March. “ growing ”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Growing refers to the process of increasing in size, quantity, or intensity over a period of time.
Grist on MSN: Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
