growths
SayGROHTHSUS/ɡɹoʊθs/UK/ɡɹəʊθs/
- 1Plural of growth.
Surgeons removed several benign growths during the procedure.
Fungal growths spread across the damp basement wall.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, that comes most naturally where growth names separate things: tumors and other abnormal masses, things that have grown, or distinct increases that can be counted one by one. Where growth means the process itself, such as expansion in general or economic growth, English treats it as uncountable. So "steady growth" is idiomatic, and "steady growths" sounds odd.
growths is a form of growth
growth, noun: An increase in size, number, value or strength, especially of an economy or a business. Full entry
- Forms
- growthgrowths plural
- Spelling
- growth → growths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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