growing

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹəʊɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ

growing

1. present participle and gerund of grow

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.

• “growing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “growing”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “growing”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “growing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.