Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process of growing upward.
  • noun Upward development.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of growing up; development; rise and progress; upspringing.
  • noun That which grows up or out: as, cartilaginous upgrowths.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

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Examples

  • He works for the Campaign for Liberty, an upgrowth of the Ron Paul presidential campaign which promotes the constitutional rights.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009 2009

  • He works for the Campaign for Liberty, an upgrowth of the Ron Paul presidential campaign which promotes the constitutional rights.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009 2009

  • Then again another acute and startling outbreak, a swift upgrowth of monstrous weedy thickets, a drifting dissemination about the world of inhumanly growing thistles, of cockroaches men fought with shot guns, or a plague of mighty flies.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • It shows us primitive or primeval man, the dawn of civilization, the daybreak of religion, the upgrowth of national life.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • The antheridia (an) are scattered over the middle region of the thallus, and each is surrounded by a tubular upgrowth from the surface.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • There was a swift upgrowth of the hedgerows, a sudden vision of cows and horses, and of people running across fields.

    Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

  • Could Providence have selected a more fitting spot for the upgrowth of a romantic boy?

    Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

  • Judging by all the figures at hand, the modern Anglo-Saxon American, with his high standard of comfort, his intensely individualistic outlook on life, and his intellectual and emancipated but child-refusing wife, is being gradually thrust aside by the upgrowth of new masses of people of simpler tastes and hardier and more natural habits.

    Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921

  • The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called ` ` Christian civilization, '' and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • QUOTATION: To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

    Quotations 1919

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