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growing

/ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/noun, adjective2 syllables

Growing means: (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.

Synonyms for growing5

noun, as in (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

growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis

What does growing mean?3

noun

1

(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“he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”

2

(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

adjective

1

relating to or suitable for growth“the growing season for corn”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with growing?17

three syllables

foregoing

four syllables

undergoing
Show 40 near rhymes
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Growing in a sentence

  • On the whole, the pomato plants are growing well this year.unknown
  • He thought about growing a beard, but gave up the idea of growing one.CK
  • As he was growing up, he had found nothing but hate around him.Scott
  • The grass was growing so quickly, it had to be cut every week.janms
  • Organic agriculture is a method of growing plants (grains, legumes, fruit) without chemicals.AlanF_US
  • All over the world, people are growing fatter.Eccles17
  • Machine translation, while growing in accuracy, is a poor way of creating translated documents.swolesuki
  • Without a cowherd, the cows wandered in a field where wheat was growing.AlanF_US

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of growing

as a noun

plural
growings