Definition of growing

"growing" in the noun sense

1. growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis

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. growing

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

"growing" in the verb sense

1. turn, grow

pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute become

"The weather turned nasty"

"She grew angry"

2. grow

become larger, greater, or bigger expand or gain

"The problem grew too large for me"

"Her business grew fast"

3. grow

increase in size by natural process

"Corn doesn't grow here"

"In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"

"her hair doesn't grow much anymore"

4. grow

cause to grow or develop

"He grows vegetables in his backyard"

5. mature, maturate, grow

develop and reach maturity undergo maturation

"He matured fast"

"The child grew fast"

6. originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow

come into existence take on form or shape

"A new religious movement originated in that country"

"a love that sprang up from friendship"

"the idea for the book grew out of a short story"

"An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7. grow, raise, farm, produce

cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

"The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"

"They produce good ham in Parma"

"We grow wheat here"

"We raise hogs here"

8. grow, develop, produce, get, acquire

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes

"He grew a beard"

"The patient developed abdominal pains"

"I got funny spots all over my body"

"Well-developed breasts"

9. develop, grow

grow emotionally or mature

"The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"

"When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"

10. grow

become attached by or as if by the process of growth

"The tree trunks had grown together"

"growing" in the adjective sense

1. growing

relating to or suitable for growth

"the growing season for corn"

"good growing weather"

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Quotations for growing

Our growing thought
Makes growing revelation. [ George Eliot ]

A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. [ Proverb ]

Defend me, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old with drawing nothing up. [ William Cowper ]

Growing thought makes growing revelation. [ George Pallet ]

And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay. [ George MacDonald ]

While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends.
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still. [ Pollok ]

All growth that is not towards God is growing to decay. [ George MacDonald ]

Things subject to mutability are every moment growing old. [ Dr. Winter ]

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. [ Hamerton ]

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]

It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs. [ Lord Lytton ]

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]

Who can describe the transports of a heart truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration? [ Fordyce ]

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner! We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art. in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men - the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

growing in Scrabble®

The word growing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters growing:

GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

growing

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word growing

GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In growing

GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GROWING
(98 = 48 + 50)
GROWING
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GROWING
(92 = 42 + 50)
GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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growing in Words With Friends™

The word growing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters growing:

GROWING
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

growing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word growing

GROWING
(116 = 81 + 35)
GROWING
(110 = 75 + 35)
GROWING
(104 = 69 + 35)
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GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
(51 = 16 + 35)
GROWING
(51 = 16 + 35)
GROWING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In growing

GROWING
(116 = 81 + 35)
GROWING
(110 = 75 + 35)
GROWING
(104 = 69 + 35)
GROWING
(104 = 69 + 35)
GROWING
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GROWING
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GROWING
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Words within the letters of growing

2 letter words in growing (6 words)

3 letter words in growing (11 words)

4 letter words in growing (9 words)

5 letter words in growing (6 words)

6 letter words in growing (2 words)

7 letter words in growing (1 word)

growing + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence growing

Words that start with growing (2 words)

Words with growing in them (2 words)

Word Growth involving growing

Shorter words in growing

ow row grow

ow owing rowing

in win wing owing rowing

ow row rowing

Longer words containing growing

coffeegrowing

fruitgrowing

growingly

ingrowing

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