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growing (root: grow)
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]
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, workmanshipFor further exploring for "growing" in Webster Dictionary Online