degrow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From de- + grow.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de
Usage
Inflected Forms
degrows (present, singular)
degrowing (participle, present)
degrew (past)
degrown (participle, past)