growing

/ɡrəʊ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɡrəʊ/

growing

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

gro - wing -> growing

Myanmar meaning

(adj) တိုးလာသော။တိုးပွားလာသော။ကြီးထွားလာသော။ (v[ing]) ကြီးထွားလာနေ

Full entry

grow / grǝƱ /v (pt grew /gru: /; pp grown /grǝƱn/)

၁။ ကြီးထွားလာသည်။ ဖြစ်ထွန်းသည်။ How tall you've grown! ❍ A growing child needs plenty of sleep. ❍ She wants to let her hair grow . သူက ဆံပင်ကို အရှည်ထားလိုသည်။ ❍ You must invest if you want your business to grow.
၂။ (က) ~ (from sth) (into sth) (အပင်)ပေါက်သည်။ (ဖားလောင်းအဖြစ်မှ ဖား အဖြစ်သို့) တိုးတက်ပြောင်းလဲ သည်။ Rice does not grow in cold climates. ❍ Plants grow from seeds. ❍ Tadpoles grow into frogs.
(ခ) ~ in sth တိုးတက်သည်။ တိုးပွားသည်။ grow in stature/ confidence/ wisdom.
၃။ ပို၍ (အို၊ ချမ်းသာ၊ မှောင်) လာသည်။ grow old(er)/ rich(er)/ small (er)/ weak(er) ❍ It began to grow dark. ❍ I grew tired of waiting, and left.
၄။ ~ sth (from sth) (အပင်) စိုက်သည်။ (မုတ်ဆိတ်) မွေးထားသည်။ grow roses ❍ grow a beard ❍ grow onions from seed. See also HOME-GROWN
၅။ ပို၍ (အားထား၊ ချစ်ခင် စသည်) လာသည်။ He grew increasingly to rely on her. ❍ I became fonder of her as I grew to know her better.
❏ grow apart (from sb) [PHRV ] (no passive) ကင်းကွာသည်။ grow apart from old school-friends.
❏ grow away from sb [PHRV ] (no passive) တဖြည်းဖြည်း ကင်းကွာသည်။ When she left school she started to grow away from her mother.
❏ grower n ၁။ စိုက်ပျိုးသူ။ rose growers ❍ I buy wine from a local grower.
၂။ အတက် (နှေးသော၊ မြန်သော) အပင်။ a quick grower.
❏ growing adj တိုးလာသော။ တိုးပွားလာသော။ ကြီးထွား လာသော။ his growing indifference to her ❍ a growing problem ❍ a club with a growing membership.
❏ growing pains n [pl]
၁။ ကလေးငယ်များ အထွားမြန်၍ ခံစားရလေ့ရှိသော အကြောအခြင် နာကျင်ခြင်း။ ကြီးကောင်နာ။
၂။ လုပ်ငန်းအစပျိုးချိန်၌ ကြုံရလေ့ရှိသော ပြဿနာများ။ The business is still suffering from growing pains.
❏ grow into sth [PHRV ] (no passive)
၁။ တဖြည်းဖြည်း… ဖြစ်လာသည်။ She is growing into a beautiful young woman. ❍ He has grown into a dreadful old bore.
၂။ ထွားလာပြီး (အဝတ်အစားနှင့်) တော်သွား (မည်)။ The coat's too big for him now, but he'll grow into it.
၃။ အသားကျ လာသည်။ She is a good actress, but she still needs time to grow into the part she is playing.
❏ grow on sb (no passive) [PHRV ] အစတွင် မကြိုက်လှ သော်လည်း တစ်စတစ်စ ခင်တွယ်သွားသည်။ His music grows on you, I find.
❏ (not) grow on trees [IDM ] လွယ်လွယ်နှင့်မရ။ You spend too much ^__ money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
❏ grow out of sth [PHRV ]
၁။ ထွားလာ၍ မတော်တော့။ grow out of one's clothes.
၂။ (အသက်အရွယ်နှင့်) မလိုက် တော့။ grow out of children's games.
၃။ (no passive) အစပျိုးသည်။ (စိတ်ကူး) စရသည်။ The idea for the book grew out of a brief visit to India some years ago.
❏ grow up [PHRV ]
၁။ ကြီးပြင်းလာသည်။ အရွယ် ရောက် လာသည်။ She's growing up fast. ❍ Oh, grow up (ie Behave in a more mature way)! Compare GROWN UP
၂။ ရှင်သန်သည်။ ကြီးထွားသည်။ A close friendship gradually grew up between them.

More examples

‘Hasn’t Michael grown?’ said my aunt.
[grow several inches/a lot/very tall etc] : She must have grown at least four inches since I saw her last.
[grow to a size/height/length] : In the right conditions, shellfish can grow to considerable sizes.
Some of these creatures grew to a length of over 12 feet.
[fully grown] : A fully grown lion
Plants that grow naturally in peat bogs
The redwood tree can grow over 80 metres tall.
[grow to maturity] : We left some of the better trees and let them grow to maturity.
The trees grew almost to the water’s edge.
The country’s largest rice-growing area
They grew all their own vegetables.
Various crops are grown here.
[grow something from something] : I’ve grown these geraniums from seed.
The problem continues to grow.
The world’s population was growing faster than predicted.
By 1997, the town had grown big enough to need a school of its own.
[grow to] : A ripple of laughter that grew to a delighted roar
[grow longer] : The waiting list for housing is growing longer every year.
[grow in size/number/amount] : The database will grow in size as necessary.
[grow at a fast/record etc rate] : By now the road network was growing at an alarming rate.
In the early part of the century, the industry grew steadily.
[grow by 10%/20% etc] : The economy has grown by 7% over the past year.
He has spent the past seven years growing his business.
She could feel the anger growing inside her.

Synonyms

produce, cultivate, raise, breed, nurture, abound, advance, age, amplify, arise, augment, become, become larger, branch out, build, burgeon, burst forth, come, come to be, develop, dilate, enlarge, escalate, evolve, expand, extend, fill out, flourish, gain, germinate, get bigger, get taller, grow up, heighten, increase, intensify, issue, leeway, luxuriate, maturate, mature, mount, multiply, originate, pop up, propagate, pullulate, ripen, rise, shoot, shoot up, spread, spring up, sprout, stem, strengthen, stretch, swell, thicken, thrive, turn, vegetate, wax, widen

Antonyms

abridge, cease, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decline, decrease, demolish, destroy, diminish, drop, fail, halt, hold, ignore, keep, languish, lessen, lose, lower, narrow, neglect, raze, recede, reduce, repress, retreat, ruin, shorten, shrink, stop, stunt