The meaning of GROWING is increasing in size or amount. How to use growing in a sentence.
GROWING definition: becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity. See examples of growing used in a sentence.
A growing thing (or person) is in the process of developing, often by getting bigger. You can argue for a second helping of cake by saying, "I'm a growing kid!"
Usage Note: Grow is most often used as an intransitive verb, as in The corn grew fast or Our business has been growing steadily for 10 years. This use dates back to the Middle Ages. In the 1700s, a transitive sense arose with the meaning "to produce or cultivate," as in We grow corn in our garden.
GROWING definition: 1. increasing in size or quantity: 2. increasing in size or quantity: 3. increasing in size or…. Learn more.
grow /ɡrəʊ/ vb (grows, growing, grew /ɡruː/, grown /ɡrəʊn/) (of an organism or part of an organism) to increase in size or develop (hair, leaves, or other structures)
Definition of growing adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. increasing in size, amount or degree. A growing number of people are returning to full-time education. There is growing concern over the safety of the missing teenager. There is growing opposition to the latest proposals. Shortage of water is a growing problem.
Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger. The raising of plants. The growing season here begins in March. “ growing ”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.