degrow

present singular third person degrows · participle present degrowing · past degrew · participle past degrown

1. intransitiveTo become smaller; to shrink.

   Essentially, this meant that the markets were expecting the company to degrow and its economic performance to deteriorate.

   2015, Sanjay Kulkarni, The Value Elephant

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   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.

   2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5

2. transitiveTo make (something) smaller, to reduce.

   It seems likely that wealthy countries in Western Europe and North America need to degrow their economies before establishing a steady state.

   2013, Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill, Enough is Enough, page 184