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Answer for the clue "Growing ", 8 letters:
accruing

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vb. (present participle of accrue English)

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Accrue \Ac*crue"\ ([a^]k*kr[udd]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Accrued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Accruing .] [See Accrue , n., and cf. Accresce , Accrete .] To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. --Spenser. To come to by way of increase; ...

Usage examples of accruing.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.