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Answer for the clue "Gross growth ", 4 letters:
mold

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Word definitions for mold in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast , stamp ] container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens [syn: mould , cast ] loose soil rich in organic matter ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also mould , "loose earth," Old English molde "earth, sand, dust, soil; land, country, world," from Proto-Germanic *mulda (cognates: Old Frisian molde "earth, soil," Old Norse mold "earth," Middle Dutch moude , Dutch moude , Old High German molta "dust, ...

Usage examples of mold.

In addition, a fledgling has to contend with the devastating effect of daylight, the ability to see, hear and smell things way beyond mortal capabilities, and an extraordinary mental acuity to mold mortal minds.

The trees in the alameda had been freshly whitewashed and the upper trunks were lost in the dark above the light of the few lamps yet burning so that they looked like plaster stagetrees new from the mold.

The molds and deckles are neatly stacked, coils of armature wire sit untouched by the table.

Now many cases yield to intensive therapy with aureomycin, terramycin and some of the newer molds.

What else would Lily Bede collect but his bete noir, the one remaining tie to the asthma that had molded and cursed his earliest years?

The mold that wrecked the biome designed by my parents came in with someone or something.

He lay watching Buglet as they let the sun warm them, the torn clothing molded to her body, the wet hair black and sleek against her hollowed face.

You cast yourself in the same mold as Robert Capa years ago, when you were still a boy.

Balconies, verandas, dripstones, running molds, and mullions carved from mocha-colored limestone.

Important movements have also occurred during the year to the effect of molding society for durability in the Union.

They had made him into this hunchbacked dwarfling as if molding him in a press, die-cut from a cast of his progenitor.

As the atmosphere cycled out, Papa described the repair procedure involving the replacement of a piece of molding, adjustment of a Fabry-Perot tuning etalon, and a system diagnostic to confirm the fix.

He took the first primer and frictiontaped it to the tip of -the electric etcher, then attached the taped bundle to the top of the fire extinguisher, molding it tight with putty.

German empire can not in the long run maintain its true nationality and the independence of its development, if it does not begin without delay and with the greatest energy to mold its internal and external politics as well as the whole life of the people in accordance with eugenic principles.

Dripstone molding surmounted every portal and fenestration, fashioned in curious designs both rich and elegant.