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成長 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
  • growth noun An increase in size, amount or value over time.
  • mature adj Fully grown or developed, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally.
  • wax noun A soft, oily solid substance, such as beeswax or paraffin, used for candles, polish, and other purposes.

Senses

成長 is used for these senses in English:

  • grow (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  • grow up (intransitive) To mature and become an adult.
  • growth An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
  • mature Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
  • wax (rare) The process of growing.
  • wax (intransitive, literary) To greaten.

grow — full definition

  1. verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
  2. verb To develop or mature, physically or personally.
  3. verb To cultivate plants or cause them to develop.
  4. verb To gradually come to have a quality or feeling.

growth — full definition

  1. noun An increase in size, amount or value over time.
  2. noun The process by which a living thing gets bigger or develops.
  3. noun A lump of abnormal tissue in or on the body.

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