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growth
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- pronunciation:
- groth
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
part of speech: |
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definition 1: |
the process of growing.
Babies generally experience rapid growth in the first months of life.The city had undergone tremendous growth during the previous decade.
- synonyms:
- cultivation, enlargement, expansion, increase, nurture, production, raise, rise
- antonyms:
- decline, decrease, ebb, failure, shrinkage
- similar words:
- advance, augmentation, development, evolution, extension, magnification, maturation, multiplication, progress
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definition 2: |
that which has grown.
A new growth of weeds threatened to overtake the vegetable garden.The soldiers hid in a thick growth of underbrush.He hadn't shaved for several days and now had a thick growth of beard.- synonyms:
- cultivation, enlargement, expansion, increase, production
- similar words:
- augmentation, development, extension, magnification, multiplication
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definition 3: |
an abnormal mass of tissue; tumor.
The doctor removed a suspicious growth from the patient's forehead.- synonyms:
- neoplasm, tumor
- similar words:
- cancer, carcinoma, cyst, mass, polyp
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related words: |
accretion, becoming, bush, increase, lump, node |
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