degrow
English
Verb
degrow (third-person singular simple present degrows, present participle degrowing, simple past degrew, past participle degrown)
- (intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink.
- 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:
- 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.
- 2015, Sanjay Kulkarni, The Value Elephant:
- Essentially, this meant that the markets were expecting the company to degrow and its economic performance to deteriorate.
- (transitive) To make (something) smaller, to reduce.
- 2013, Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill, Enough is Enough, page 184:
- It seems likely that wealthy countries in Western Europe and North America need to degrow their economies before establishing a steady state.
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