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(physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force
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(by extension) A new growth or expansion of something.
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Nonstandard spelling of condense. [(transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.]
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Synonym of constrictive
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(archaic) Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.
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(transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; hearten; comfort; encourage.
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(transitive) To encourage, inspire, or motivate.
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(transitive, archaic) To ripen; develop from incipiency to maturity; bring to perfection.
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(now rare) The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.
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(by extension, proscribed) Very rapid growth.
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(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To become grown over; overgrow; become covered with growth (usually one that is excessive or unsightly).
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(transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
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(transitive) To cause to grow; to produce.
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(intransitive, UK dialectal) To grow; improve; prosper.
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The continuous and roughly simultaneous surge in growth rate across a large range of measures of human activity, first recorded in the mid-20th century.
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(transitive) To become accustomed to (something) by maturing.
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(simile) To grow rapidly.
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(transitive) To gradually become more evident to someone.
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(transitive) To allow (something, often hair) to grow unimpeded.
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(idiomatic, by extension) To become too mature for something.
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(intransitive) To mature and become an adult.
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(dialectal) Characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing
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An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
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(informal) To undergo growth spurts.
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Having the capacity to grow.
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A political focus on (generally economic) growth.
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(animal breeding, finance) Inclined to growth; growing healthily or rapidly.
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(intransitive, of a tissue or organ) To increase in size.
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Compression; the packing together of loose matter.
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The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.
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(obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
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(medicine) Growth inwards.
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Process of growth or development.
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(transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
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To increase the size of the muscles.
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(business) The business expansion through increasing output and sales as opposed to mergers, acquisitions and takeovers.
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(transitive) To grow faster or larger than.
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the dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number
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(intransitive) To grow; to increase.
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To sow; to spread; to propagate.
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(obsolete) To strengthen (all senses).
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(transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
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(countable) A growth upon something else.
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(intransitive) To become tall or taller
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The process of growth or maturation; growing up
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The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
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(intransitive, literary) To grow.
adj
(of an image) Having been zoomed in, or having been made larger so that smaller details can be discerned.
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