Growing
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Old English grōwan (originally referring chiefly to plants), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch groeien, also to grass and green.
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growing (adj.)
Old English, present-participle adjective from grow (v.). Growing season is attested from 1729; growing pains by 1752.
growing (n.)
late 14c., "a gradual increase, action of causing to increase," verbal noun from grow (v.). Meaning "that which has grown, a crop" is from 1540s. Dialectal growsome "tending to make things grow" is from 1570s.
