- growing (adj.)
- Old English, present participle adjective from grow (v.). Growing season is attested from 1729; growing pains by 1752.
- growing (n.)
- late 14c., "a gradual increase, action of causing to increase," verbal noun from grow (v.). Meaning "that which has grown, a crop" is from 1540s. Dialectal growsome "tending to make things grow" is from 1570s.
- harrowing (adj.)
- "extremely distressing, painful," 1799 (implied in harrowingly), from present participle of harrow (v.).