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Definition of advancing : of Advance

Synonyms:

forward-moving, forward, progressive, onward

hurrying, furthering, promoting, quickening, facilitating, hastening, expediting, accelerating

enlarging, incrementing, raising, magnifying, upgrading, elevating, boosting, heightening, multiplying, accruing, reinforcing, extending, increasing, expanding, amplifying, inflating, broadening, maximizing, growing, burgeoning, fattening, widening, augmenting, adding, lengthening

proceeding

enhancing, improving, correcting, renovating, garnishing, embellishing, elaborating, refining, enriching, progressing

favoring, contributing, helping, serving, bettering, doing good, availing, assisting

near, forthcoming, approaching, proximate, coming, closing, looming, converging, imminent, nearby, gaining, nearing, expected, accessing, impending

endowing, biding, issuing, inviting, citing, bestowing, presenting, imparting, quoting, rendering, submitting, tendering, dealing, granting, giving, attempting, offering

easing, aiding, simplifying, encouraging

letting, loaning, lending, leasing, mortgaging, subletting, pawning

Usage examples:

• His grounds for believing this are of such nature and weight as to compel him to despise the warning that years are advancing on him, and his former iron constitution is failing. - "How I Found Livingstone", Sir Henry M. Stanley.
• The Goths are advancing." - "A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)", Felix Dahn.
• The other girls and Miss Frean had moved over to meet the advancing Troop. - "The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest", Margaret Vandercook.