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Growing vs Thriving - What's the difference?

growing | thriving |

As verbs the difference between growing and thriving

is that growing is while thriving is .

As nouns the difference between growing and thriving

is that growing is growth; increase while thriving is the action of the verb to thrive .

As adjectives the difference between growing and thriving

is that growing is that grows while thriving is that thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.

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.
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    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing

    • thriving

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to thrive .

    • Verb

    (head)