Degrow
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Degrow is a verb meaning (intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink.
Meaning
(intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To make (something) smaller, to reduce.
Example Sentences
Essentially, this meant that the markets were expecting the company to degrow and its economic performance to deteriorate.
It seems likely that wealthy countries in Western Europe and North America need to degrow their economies before establishing a steady state.
They can eat vast amounts when times are good, and can even ‘degrow’ when food is scarce, consuming their own body mass very slowly, with no ill-effects.
Word Forms
- degrows
- degrowing
- degrew
- degrown
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ungrow, shrink, undergrow, small, dwarf, diminish.
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