Preposition: of

• bacterium: It's function is to keep the surface wet, preventing damage and to inhibit the growth of bacteria.

Converse of object

• stimulate: The most obvious effect is that it stimulates linear growth of the skeleton.

• inhibit: Water extracts from the roots and foliage have been shown to inhibit plant growth.

• accelerate: It might smell like a fisherman's armpit, but it is very good at improving microbial activity and helps accelerate growth.

Adjective modifier

• rapid: During the 16th century, the city grew rich with the rapid growth of trade with the Americas.

• economic: Economic growth needs a continuing growth in demand for oil.

• continued: With continued growth they are looking for Software Engineers to join a highly experienced team.

• sustained: My client based in Cardiff is an established manufacturing company, currently experiencing a period of sustained growth.

• sustainable: Its aim is to deliver high quality, sustainable growth in England.

• organic: Due to organic growth they are they are looking for the next shining star to fill some very large boots.

Modifies a noun

• hormone: Growth hormone release from the anterior pituitary is under the control of two hypothalamic hormones.

• spurt: Georgian An early 18th-century growth spurt transformed Dublin into the next largest British city after London.

• rate: The annual growth rate equates to a decline of 0.4 % in real terms.

• factor: It is thought that the growth factor speeds up the movement of cells into the wounds.

• retardation: Near-term rat fetuses showed growth retardation, again at maternally toxic doses.

Noun used with modifier

• productivity: Allowing for these and for potential public sector productivity growth gives a picture similar to cash incomes.

• population: To many environmentalists, it's a puzzle how anyone could doubt the urgency of checking human population growth.

• earning: But even when bonuses are stripped out, earnings growth slowed to 3.9 % , the lowest since February 2004.

• hair: Hair growth vitamins can be made to make your hair grow faster or help hair loss.

• cent: Other notable rising markets in the survey included Bulgaria which rose by 20.5 per cent and Denmark which has experienced 15.4 per cent growth.