growth spurt

noun

A sudden growth in one's body, especially during adolescence.

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Meanings

noungrowth spurt (plural growth spurts)

plural growth spurts

  1. A sudden growth in one's body, especially during adolescence.
    1 more example

    Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.

    2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025
verbgrowth spurt (third-person singular simple present growth spurts, present participle growth spurting, simple past and past participle growth spurted)

present singular third person growth spurts · participle present growth spurting · participle past growth spurted · past growth spurted

  1. informalTo undergo growth spurts.

Translations

Catalan estirada
  • estiradasudden growth in one's body
Chinese Mandarin 生長突增 /生长突增
  • 生長突增 /生长突增 (shēngzhǎng tūzēng)sudden growth in one's body
Dutch groeispurt
  • groeispurtsudden growth in one's body
Finnish kasvupyrähdys
  • kasvupyrähdyssudden growth in one's body
French poussée de croissance
  • poussée de croissancesudden growth in one's body
German Wachstumsschub
  • Wachstumsschubsudden growth in one's body
Icelandic vaxtarkippur
  • vaxtarkippursudden growth in one's body
Polish gwałtowny rozwój
  • gwałtowny rozwójsudden growth in one's body
Portuguese surto de crescimento, espichão
  • surto de crescimentosudden growth in one's body
  • espichãosudden growth in one's body
Romanian puseu de creștere
  • puseu de creșteresudden growth in one's body
Spanish estirón
  • estirónsudden growth in one's body
Cite this entry
APA

growth spurt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/growth%20spurt

MLA

“growth spurt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/growth%20spurt. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “growth spurt,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/growth%20spurt.

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