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Definition of increasing :
1. Music.
2. of Increase
Synonyms:
crescendo, progressive, multiplicative, flared, accelerando, profit-maximising, incorporative, exploding, augmentative, accretive, flourishing, booming, profit-maximizing, dominant, acceleratory, ballooning, flaring, building, rising, maturing, crescent, accretionary, accelerative, maximising
expanding (part of speech: verb)
stretching, engorging, swelling, thickening, distending, spreading, dilating, developing
increasing (part of speech: verb)
enlarging, growing, amplifying, multiplying, raising, inflating, elevating, fattening, upgrading, boosting, expanding, lengthening, reinforcing, burgeoning, maximizing, widening, broadening, advancing, extending
intensifying (part of speech: verb)
escalating, deepening, stressing, heightening, sharpening, intensifying, emphasizing, magnifying, exaggerating, accentuating, underlining
adding (part of speech: verb)
aggregating, tallying, accruing, annexing, attaining, acquiring, totaling, adding, summing, augmenting, incrementing, accumulating
Usage examples:
- She had given her own flesh and blood for money, and her punishment was rapidly increasing upon her. - "Jess of the Rebel Trail", H. A. Cody.
- We watched them with ever- increasing anxiety. - "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet", A. Henry Savage Landor.
- Finally its increasing fury and the memory of his distance from home had brought him to his senses, and he had struck out for the West Point road. - "Nature's Serial Story", E. P. Roe.