"degrow" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From de- + grow.",
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          "ref": "2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Essentially, this meant that the markets were expecting the company to degrow and its economic performance to deteriorate.",
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        "To become smaller; to shrink."
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        "(intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink."
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          "ref": "2013, Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill, Enough is Enough, page 184:",
          "text": "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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        "To make (something) smaller, to reduce."
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        "(transitive) To make (something) smaller, to reduce."
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      "form": "degrew",
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      ],
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        "To become smaller; to shrink."
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          "smaller",
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          "shrink"
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        "(intransitive) To become smaller; to shrink."
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        "(transitive) To make (something) smaller, to reduce."
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