growing adj. 1.Increasing in intensity of some quality. (prenominal)
Synonyms: increasing(prenominal), incremental.
2.Increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity.
3.Increasing in size and maturity; of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
Synonyms: flourishing, thriving.
4.P. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants. Grow v. i. (past grew; past part. grown ; pres. part. growing) 1.To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
2.To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. "Winter began to grow fast on." "Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus."
3.To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. "Where law faileth, error groweth."
4.To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. "For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary."
5.To become attached or fixed; to adhere. "Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow."
Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.
Grown over, covered with a growth.
To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. "These wars have grown out of commercial considerations."
To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children.
To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.
Synonyms: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend.
growing n. The sequence of events involved in the development of an organism. Synonyms: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
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