growing's Usage Examples:

Do you have a headache by chance?She stormed out, blood pulsing and headache growing.

"The vamp's memories were fading fast and growing blurry.

Probably the most outstanding example is the growing of yew trees in the churchyards to supply the wood for making the longbows.

It might be better to save these for your next growing season, unless you are just particularly brave and adventuresome.

AquAid Franchising Ltd is one of the UK 's fastest-growing water cooler companies, supplying fresh spring water to offices and schools across Britain.

growing chamomile of any type is considered a tonic for anything you grow in the garden.

This is a great project for children as sprouts are quick growing and as such a youngster can see a marked difference, from seed to sprout, over the course of a few days.

But the growing secularism of the Church led to a revival of the former method in the beginning of the 13th century amongst the Franciscans.

In the cool or odontoglossum house a considerable degree of moisture must be maintained at all times, for in these the plants keep growing more or less continuously.

A Guardian leader warns of growing antipathy in politics.

The nearness of Brazil to the coast of Africa made it easy for the Portuguese to supply the growing lack of native labour by the wholesale importation of purchased or kidnapped Africans.

Tattoos flared on the arms and necks of the people in front of her before fading and growing invisible again.

The local princelings and monarchs had been growing in culture, wealth and power, and after Pepi II.

Synonyms:

ontogeny, auxesis, virilisation, growth, dentition, rooting, psychogenesis, recapitulation, cultivation, suppression, life cycle, cohesion, kainogenesis, inflorescence, culture, caenogenesis, kenogenesis, virilization, germination, masculinisation, infructescence, organic process, vegetation, psychosexual development, odontiasis, palingenesis, gametogenesis, maturation, cytogeny, habit, fructification, psychomotor development, cainogenesis, anthesis, juvenescence, ontogenesis, masculinization, efflorescence, biological process, foliation, myelinization, sprouting, teething, amelogenesis, proliferation, morphogenesis, development, gastrulation, cytogenesis, apposition, flowering, teratogenesis, cenogenesis, angiogenesis, blossoming, leafing, florescence, neurogenesis, myelinisation, intussusception,

Antonyms:

non-proliferation, decrease, cenogenesis, palingenesis, nondevelopment,