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Growing vs Dying - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between growing and dying

is that growing is while dying is or dying can be (nonstandard) ).

As nouns the difference between growing and dying

is that growing is growth; increase while dying is (plurale tantum) those who are currently expiring, moribund.

As adjectives the difference between growing and dying

is that growing is that grows while dying is approaching death; about to die; moribund.

growing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • growth; increase
  • * 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
  • Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That grows.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing
  • dying

    English

    (wikipedia dying)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
  • The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
    dying fire
  • Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
  • In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
  • Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
  • His dying words were of his mother.
    until my dying day
    his dying bed
    Antonyms
    * nascent

    Noun

  • (plurale tantum) Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
  • The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying .
  • The process of approaching death; or, less precisely , death itself.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) )
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