growing

[ groh-ing ]
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adjective
  1. becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity:growing discontent among industrial workers.

  2. having or showing life.

Origin of growing

1
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English growende. See grow, -ing2

Other words from growing

  • grow·ing·ly, adverb
  • un·grow·ing, adjective

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How to use growing in a sentence

  • We could not help growing; perhaps we wished to overgrow; but is there no such thing as ungrowing?

    Imaginary Interviews | W. D. Howells
  • Our limited knowledge can never be like the ungrowing perfect wisdom of God.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture | Alexander Maclaren