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growing

[ groh-ing ]

adjective

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

    growing discontent among industrial workers.

  2. having or showing life.


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Other Word Forms

  • ǷiԲ· adverb
  • ܲ·ǷiԲ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of growing1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English growende. See grow, -ing 2
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The growing consensus is that the Democrats are marching out a vanguard of ancient party members to fight the war before the last war.

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The government has made very little progress in preparing the UK for the growing threats posed by rising temperatures since coming to power, its climate watchdog has warned.

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The study's co-author Dr Adwait Sharma agreed, saying the device's "idle time" presented "unique opportunities" to meet the "growing need for adaptable robots and integrated systems that can seamlessly fit into our daily lives".

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Turkey has been rapidly growing its military presence in the Forbidden Zone in recent years, but until now the scale of this expansion was not publicly known.

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Today's Vietnam is a remarkably different country than the one American troops withdrew from in defeat – it's enterprising, it's growing fast and it's getting richer.

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