growing

[groh-ing]

adjective

1. becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity.

   growing discontent among industrial workers.

2. having or showing life.

Other Word Forms

• growingly adverb
• ungrowing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of growing¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English growende. See grow, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Music and football played big roles in Turner’s life while growing up in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Clifton, Va.

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"What we've found is we can carry 25% more cows on the farm, because the young stock are growing and maturing so much faster and the cows are yielding 25% more milk," he said.

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It has made delivering supplies an even more pressing task, and that means the demand for unmanned ground vehicles is growing.

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The case highlights what lawyers say has become a growing problem in divorce proceedings: What happens to frozen embryos when marriages end?

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And how would people access essential services like healthcare, education, transportation that don’t function like “growing vegetables,” his analogy for voluntary, hobby-based work?

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