growing

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growing

  1. present participle and gerund of grow

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growing (countable and uncountable, plural growings)

  1. growth; increase
    • 1852, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West:
      Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.
  2. The raising of plants.
    The growing season here begins in March.

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