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# growing

«growing» in Mova's school dictionary: **getting bigger or taller right now** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (present participle of grow); adjective (growing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Growing means getting bigger or taller right now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#m1)

2) Growing plants means raising them from seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#m2)

3) Growing can mean increasing or becoming more, like a growing crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#m3)

4) A growing child is one who is still getting bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

A change that adds over time, or plants being raised in a garden. In science: a growing plant needs water and light; the growing season is the warm part of the year. In everyday life: growing kids need sleep and good food. Phrases: «growing up», «growing season», «a growing number of».

### examples

- The tree is growing 30 cm a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x1)
- She is growing 12 sunflowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x2)
- The growing puppy eats more each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x3)
- His savings keep growing by 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x4)
- Growing up on a farm, she learned to ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x5)
- A growing crowd waited at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x6)
- We are growing beans in cups on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x7)
- Growing children need about 10 hours of sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x8)
- I feel that I am growing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/#x9)

### note

Points to adding, often the same amount each time (a rate). Trap: «growing 30 cm a year» is the change per year, not the height. Spelling: grow + ing, no letter doubled.

### In the corpora

- ["We're expecting" means a baby is growing inside Mum and will be born in a few months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/7/)
- [A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/)
- [Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/14/)
- [Alcohol is against the law to buy before 18 because growing bodies and brains handle it badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/3/)
- [Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «growing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/growing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.