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Growing

//ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ// noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or suitable for growth wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    growth; increase countable, uncountable

    "Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger."

  2. 2
    (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state wordnet
  3. 3
    The raising of plants. countable, uncountable

    "The growing season here begins in March."

  4. 4
    (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of grow form-of, gerund, participle, present

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