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growth
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- pronunciation:
- groth
- features:
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part of speech: |
noun |
definition 1: |
Growth is the process of growing, the process of getting larger. When we measure the growth of something, we measure how much something has grown or how well it is growing.
The students measured the growth of their bean plants every week.
- synonyms:
- expansion, production, rise
- antonyms:
- decline, decrease
- similar words:
- advance, development, evolution, extension, multiplication, progress
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definition 2: |
A growth is a thing or a large group of things that has grown somewhere.
A new growth of weeds is taking over the garden.- synonyms:
- production
- similar words:
- development, extension, multiplication
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definition 3: |
When you have a growth in or on your body, it means that you have something growing that is not normal.
The doctor removed a growth from my mother's back.- synonyms:
- tumor
- similar words:
- cancer, mass
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related words: |
bush, lump |
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