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Sense: Adjective: increasing
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increasing Collocations, snowballing, rising Collocations, escalating, on the increase, on the rise, heightening, multiplying, mushrooming, ballooning
Sense: Adjective: developing
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developing Collocations, expanding, swelling Collocations, budding Collocations, germinating, spreading, burgeoning, enlarging, snowballing, maturing, growing up, proliferating, building Collocations, thriving Collocations, blooming, blossoming, flourishing
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shrinking Collocations, deflating, compressing, contracting, decreasing, lessening, declining, diminishing, withering, shriveling, wilting, dying Collocations
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Sense: Verb: enlarge
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enlarge Collocations, expand Collocations, swell Collocations, widen Collocations, dilate, spread Collocations, increase in size, stretch Collocations
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shrink Collocations, deflate, compress, contract Collocations, decrease Collocations, lessen, decline Collocations, diminish Collocations
Sense: Verb: get bigger - people and animals
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get bigger, get taller, grow up, shoot up
Sense: Verb: sprout - plants
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Sense: Verb: start to feel - followed by an adjective
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become Collocations, start to feel, begin to feel, start feeling, begin feeling, get Collocations, start to be
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Sense: Verb: become - usually followed by 'into'
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Sense: Verb: cultivate
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Sense: Verb: prosper
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prosper, thrive Collocations, flourish Collocations, make strides, boom Collocations, improve Collocations, progress Collocations, burgeon, succeed Collocations, be successful