growingadjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/B2 increasing in size or quantity:
There is a growing awareness of the seriousness of this disease.
A growing boy needs his food.
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- There is a growing current of support for green issues among voters.
- Desperate measures are needed to deal with the growing drug problem.
- They noted the consumers' growing demand for quicker service.
- There is a growing number of women in high-profile positions in the government.
- Many small businesses started up in the 1980s to cater to this growing market.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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