Definitions for growing

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growing grow·ing

Spelling: [groh-ing]

IPA: /ˈgroʊ ɪŋ/

Growing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in growing (gginorw).

Definitions for growing

Idioms

1. grow a pair, Slang: Vulgar. pair1 (def 23).

adjective

1. becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity:
2. having or showing life.

Verb phrases

1. grow into, to become large enough for: to become mature or experienced enough for:
2. grow on/upon, to increase in influence or effect: to become gradually more liked or accepted by:
3. grow out of, to become too large or mature for; outgrow: to originate in; develop from:
4. grow up, to be or become fully grown; attain mental or physical maturity. to come into existence; arise:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to grow:
2. to allow to grow:
3. to cover with a growth (used in the passive):

verb (used without object)

1. to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
2. to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, as by crystallization.
3. to arise or issue as a natural development from an original happening, circumstance, or source:
4. to increase gradually in size, amount, etc.; become greater or larger; expand:
5. to become gradually attached or united by or as if by growth:
6. to come to be by degrees; become:
7. Nautical. to lie or extend in a certain direction, as an anchor cable.

Origin of growing

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

Examples for growing

She was silent with emotion when Mrs. Hancock told her she was growing like her mother.

Asian-Americans may vote for Democrats now, but they are a highly persuadable—and growing—part of the electorate.

And Dick is growing more and more wretched about it every day.

The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

You see, Uncle Paul, you are growing old and forgetful, and might lock me in again.

We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.

Such knowledge as each man has of himself is that of a growing entity.

Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.

growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

It had a conversational way of brightening and growing dull.