Word Finder - growing

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To become larger, to increase in magnitude.

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Children grow quickly.

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To appear or sprout.

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A long tail began to grow from his backside.

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To develop, to mature.

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As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.

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To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

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Have you ever grown your hair before?

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To assume a condition or quality over time.

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The boy grew wise as he matured.

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To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

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Growth; increase

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(attributive) Connected with growing

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The growing season here begins in March.

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That grows.

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Milk is good for growing children.

My darling little sister is growing very fast.

He said nothing of his visit to Martha's room and busied himself on the stoop taping a "Dean for Sheriff" poster to a wooden stake before adding it to a growing pile.

It was growing lighter and lighter.

She added yet another item to the growing queue.

Carmen felt her face growing warm.

She pulled her hand back, her face growing warmer.

What about the plants you're growing?

She waited, her breathing growing shallower and faster.

Her blood was thrumming even faster than the alcohol alone would have caused, her body growing too warm for comfort.

The scientist.s glasses were missing, his expression growing sorrowful as he looked around at his destroyed lab.

The lamb was growing.

Yes, Ethel confesses to appointment as the tipster's public representative and seems to be accepted as sorts, in the eyes of her growing public of readers.

She closed her eyes, breathing growing shallow.

His reaction fueled the sense of doom that had been growing since Jade appeared with Iliana.s hand.

He leaned forward, curiosity growing.

Their kiss grew more passionate, the feel of her body against him not enough to sate his growing need.

She sat down, growing oblivious to those around her as she manipulated and modified the battlefield.

She pulled her hair back in a scrunchie at the base of her neck, growing nervous once again.

Dean's offer to help was dismissed as he looked up and down the street hoping no neighbors were witnessing the growing pile of ample sized clothes.

Jackson gave him an appreciative glance and said, "My little girl is growing up."

And waited, growing as anxious as Jack.

He hissed in pain, his dark eyes growing distant.

Rhyn took her hands tentatively, growing more confident when she didn't disappear.

You boys are growing like weeds.

This power grew with the growing importance of the sacrifice and the complication of its ceremonial.

Katie couldn.t help the sense of panic growing within her.

Katie didn't answer for a moment, pensive.  Gabe glanced back at her then slowed, as if sensing she was growing tired.

His anger growing at the petite woman who'd taken Andre, Katie and Gabe from him, Rhyn stalked towards the door.

The forest was growing dark when he reached the tree to find the angel sitting in front of a dead fire, shaking with cold.

Kris and Kiki both looked towards the sky when the thunder began.  They'd both given their jackets to Hannah, whose step was growing slower the farther they went into the jungle.  Kiki muttered but didn't openly bitch, probably knowing Kris had no patience for anyone insulting his mate.

Sensing her growing distress, Taran crossed to the door leading from the bedchamber into the hallway and opened it.

The firs are distinguished from the pines and larches by having their needle-like leaves placed singly on the shoots, instead of growing in clusters from a sheath on a dwarf branch.

Specimens on the bark of trees require pressure until the bark is dry, lest they become curled; and those growing on sand or friable soil, such as Coniocybefurfuracea, should be laid carefully on a layer of gum in the box in which they are intended to be kept.

The late 2nd century movement known as Montanism was in essence a revolt against this growing secularization of the Church, but the movement failed, and the development against which it protested was only hastened.

Old forms became too narrow, and vigorously growing national literatures appeared side by side with the universal Latin literature.

The foreign trade of Czechoslovakia was in 1921 growing steadily in volume.

As regards the mode of production of galls, the most important distinction is between galls that result from the introduction of an egg, or other matter, into the interior of the plant, and those that are due to an agent acting externally, the gall in the latter case frequently growing in such a manner as ultimately to enclose its producers.

To this factor was added the revival of national feeling and prejudice, with growing political complications and jealousies.

There is a growing tendency to mixed marriages, which are an important factor in religious changes.

But although the Mahommedan religion from the very commencement sustained checks, it nevertheless made its weight felt upon the independent states of Turkestan to the north and east, and thus acquired a steadily growing influence.

External pressure, here as elsewhere, created a patriotic military caste, and the subsequent partitional period, when every little prince had his own separate court, still further established the growing influence of the szlachta, or gentry, who were not backward in claiming and obtaining special privileges in return for their services.

In 1414, however, intimidated by the growing discontent, which frequently took the form of armed rebellion, the Knights consented to the establishment of a diet, which was re-formed on a more aristocratic basis in 1430.

The succeeding age was an age of unmitigated egoism, growing in which the old ideals were abandoned and the old corruption examples were forgotten.

Prince von Hardenberg, who by no means shared all the views of his master but was incapacitated by his growing infirmities, was first Prussian plenipotentiary, and assisting him was Baron von Humboldt.

A true disciple of Pitt, he came to the congress with an overwhelming distrust of the growing power of Russia, which was only second to his hatred of revolutionary France.

Another grass, Lygeum Spartum, with stiff rush-like leaves, growing in rocky soil on the high plains of countries bordering on the Mediterranean, especially of Spain and Algeria, is also a source of esparto.

The growing effeminacy and corruption of mankind has found her censures unendurable.

It consists of two parts, the old town on the right bank and the new town on the left bank of the river; it is rapidly growing and is regularly laid out.

The leading agricultural pursuits are the growing of Indian corn and wheat and the raising of livestock, yet it is in the production of fruits, vegetables and tobacco, that Maryland ranks highest as an agricultural state, and in no other state except South Carolina is so large a per cent.

More important still was the growing perception of the general uniformity of nature, which had forced itself with increasing insistence upon men's minds as the study of the natural sciences progressed in the 17th and 18th centuries.