Read full poem →By grey December's breath,
These lordlier growths that sicken
And die for fear of death
Dictionary Entry
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
In a Sentence
“Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.”
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Common Phrases
. growthsgrowths newgrowths malignantgrowths morbidgrowths secondarygrowths cancerous
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Poetry examples for “growths”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:
Read full poem →Girt in dark growths, yet glimmering with one star,
O night desirous as the nights of youth!
Read full poem →Out of the soil, in life updrawn
To growths that vine, and tangle, crawl,
Withered in part, or gone to seed.
Read full poem →And swells into a purplish mass
Like growths on stalks of corn.
Here was I, a carpenter, mired in a bog of life
Read full poem →and choice blooms may serve to quicken the taste for more
of the same growths ; and if it shall send the reader on vague
rambling quests over the hills and dales where the fairies
Read full poem →But, having entered in,
Great growths and small
Show them to men akin—
Read full poem →To where the cascade tumbles down
And sends the bobbing growths aswing,
And ferns not quite but almost drown.
Read full poem →3
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow,
An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,