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upgrowth

upgrowth noun: the process or result of growing up; progress; development.

Noun

upgrowth (plural upgrowths)

  1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
    • The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188
    • the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy1876, John Richard Green, The History of the English People

Forms of upgrowth

pluralupgrowths

Origin of upgrowth

From up- + growth.

Questions about upgrowth

What does upgrowth mean?
Upgrowth means the process or result of growing up; progress; development.
What part of speech is upgrowth?
Upgrowth is a noun.
What is the plural of upgrowth?
The plural of upgrowth is upgrowths.

Words near upgrowth in the dictionary

  1. upgrow
  2. upgrowing
  3. upgrowings
  4. upgrown
  5. upgrows
  6. upgrowth
  7. upgrowths
  8. upgun
  9. upgunned
  10. upgunning
  11. upguns

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