growing (root: grow)

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: grow=ing
• COUNT in NET: 17 in 16 verses (in OT : 9 in 9 verses) (in NT : 8 in 7 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

growing, n. 

 the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.  [WordNet 1.5]

growing, adj. 

•  increasing in intensity of some quality.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

growing

architecture, assembly, blooming, blossoming, budding, building, burgeoning, callow, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendoing, crescent, cultivation, developed, devising, dewy, elaboration, erection, expanding, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, florescent, flourishing, flowering, formation, forming, formulation, framing, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, green, green thumb, grown, grown-up, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hypertrophied, immature, impubic, increasing, incremental, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, intensifying, juicy, lengthening, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mature, milling, mining, minor, molding, multiplying, naive, new-fledged, on the increase, overdeveloped, overgrown, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, proliferating, raising, raw, rearing, refining, ripening, sappy, shaping, smelting, snowballing, spreading, sprouting, swelling, tender, thriving, tightening, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, waxing, workmanship