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What is another word for
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Verb
Coming into possession of
Present participle for to increase in extent, amount, or degree
Present participle for to come, accumulate or gather together into a single mass or collection
Present participle for to provide encouragement to
Present participle for to advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone)
(
of a settlement
)
Present participle for to plan and begin the building of
Present participle for countdown, preparation
Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms
Present participle for to become improved or more advanced
Present participle for to express approval or admiration of
Present participle for to flatter or compliment excessively
Present participle for to bring together or amass as a single group or collection
Present participle for to start or establish
(
of a theory or suggestion
)
Present participle for to put forward
Present participle for to give greater praise than due
Present participle for to reinforce the strength or sturdiness of
Present participle for to gain weight, especially muscle
Present participle for give a false or misleading account of the nature of
Present participle for to repair or renovate so as to return something to its original condition
Present participle for press for political action
Present participle for to do something repeatedly so as to become skilled
Present participle for to publicly recommend or support
Noun
The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged
The action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object
The state of being educated or enlightened
An act of gathering or accumulating things or items
The reinforcing or bolstering something, or the amount of something
A (typically sudden) spurt or build-up of something in great quantities
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Verb
▲
Coming into possession of
getting
acquiring
obtaining
coming by
coming to have
coming into possession of
receiving
gaining
earning
winning
coming into
coming in for
taking possession of
taking receipt of
buying
purchasing
procuring
possessing oneself of
securing
gathering
collecting
picking up
appropriating
amassing
hooking
netting
landing
achieving
attaining
getting hold of
getting hands on
grabbing
bagging
getting one's hands on
getting one's mitts on
scoring
snagging
gleaning
nabbing
collaring
having
copping
latching onto
racking up
accessing
locking up
swinging
inheriting
annexing
capturing
reaping
realizing
US
making
garnering
drawing
getting your hands on
carrying
wangling
bringing in
knocking down
realising
UK
pulling down
fulfilling
taking
catching
hustling
corralling
grasping
scaring up
clinching
deriving
logging
scooping
reaching
hitting
harvesting
potting
carrying off
clearing
completing
coming away with
enlisting
accomplishing
chalking up
notching up
arriving at
ringing up
ameliorating
walking away with
consummating
clocking up
walking off with
advancing
seizing
nailing
snaring
trapping
snatching
snapping up
glomming
grappling
nobbling
rapping
pulling in
laying hold of
ensnaring
finding
hauling in
apprehending
arresting
entrapping
pocketing
detaining
taking home
producing
taking into custody
laying hands on
pinching
nicking
doing
raking in
taking in
busting
grossing
pulling off
taking prisoner
banking
recording
wresting
lifting
pulling
striking
accumulating
prehending
taking hold of
bringing home
grabbing hold of
getting possession of
entangling
holding
enmeshing
restraining
ensnarling
fetching
effecting
abducting
entoiling
immeshing
meshing
getting one's fingers on
taking up
pouncing on
rounding up
feeling your collar
scraping together
occupying
receiving a salary of
taking home earnings of
accepting
claiming
gripping
registering
tangling
getting paid
managing
compassing
wrapping up
taking captive
conquering
lassoing
carrying out
catching up
jumping at
bringing to fruition
seizing on
leaping about
taking advantage of
acting on
having conferred on one
reeling in
placing under arrest
turning in
acting upon
knocking up
reserving
executing
clasping
clutching
imprisoning
adopting
booking
effectuating
plucking
meeting
incarcerating
tallying
finishing
yanking
perfecting
clenching
accruing
locating
establishing
kidnaping
kidnapping
bringing
getting into one's hands
retrieving
culling
ambushing
fixing
returning
cleaning up
reifying
getting a hold of
recovering
polishing off
grabbing at
getting done
drumming up
taking hostage
taking possession
latching on to
bringing off
blagging
lucking
bringing about
seizing hold of
coming across
throwing in jail
taking in for questioning
carrying through
gathering up
grasping with both hands
succeeding in
following through with
putting in jail
going for
winning possession of
contracting
snarling
swiping
assuming
profiting with
understanding
knowing
stealing
captivating
keeping
feeling
yielding
jagging
beaching
touching
succeeding in finding
snapping
marking up
sensing
walking away
clocking
notching
making it to
putting behind bars
stopping
covering
searching out
coming up with
glomming onto
maximising
UK
maximizing
US
eking out
going
agreeing to receive
accepting delivery of
taking into one's possession
making a profit
cashing in on
making a profit of
realizing a profit of
paying
laying claim to
holding out for
hitting up
tracking down
tracing
tracking
sourcing
bearing
recouping
enjoying
retaining
owning
possessing
capitalizing on
catching hold of
cinching
laying
commandeering
succeeding in making
commanding
tying up
ensuring
assuring
icing
insuring
guaranteeing
guarantying
cornering
profiting
grasping hold of
getting to
rising to
climbing to
catching at
clinging to
making use of
laying up
gobbling up
scraping up
getting at
saving
hoarding
begging borrow or steal
salvaging
salvageing
falling to the lot
meeting with
prevailing upon
buying out
making sure of
soliciting
inducing
bringing around
managing to get
making a haul
buying up
giving security
ingathering
encountering
falling upon
happening upon
stumbling upon
coming upon
getting as a result
actualizing
winding up
getting in
working
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
grabbing with both hands
swooping on
welcoming with open arms
accepting eagerly
going for enthusiastically
swooping down on
showing enthusiasm for
picking off
performing
using
perpetrating
concluding
utilizing
US
utilising
UK
filling
fixing up
sorting out
knocking off
arranging
negotiating
engineering
conducting
committing
honouring
UK
honoring
US
springeing
springing
monopolizing
US
jailing
US
making hay
doing a bang-up job
nailing it
doing justice to
making it
putting it over
taking care of
satisfying
putting the tin lid on
bringing to completion
doing one proud
delivering on
getting someplace
living up to
discharging
sewing up
fulfilling one's potential
making good on
putting through
keeping faith with
getting there
doing the trick
following through on
prosecuting
rousting
gaoling
UK
putting the cuffs on
tossing in jail
putting the arm on
preoccupying
trammelling
trammeling
running to ground
laying a trap for
waylaying
ambuscading
running to earth
engaging
availing oneself of
wrenching
enticing
deceiving
luring
tricking
seducing
finalizing
US
prising
extricating
taking by force
grabbed away
clapping hands on
taking a grip of
implicating
embroiling
beguiling
alluring
monopolising
UK
inveigling
polishing
refining
leading on
betrapping
sucking in
boxing in
setting a trap for
involving
roping in
laying for
benetting
capping
crowning
getting out of the way
putting the final touches to
topping off
rounding off
finalising
UK
putting the finishing touches to
making short work of
determining
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to increase in extent, amount, or degree
increasing
expanding
augmenting
swelling
accumulating
aggrandizing
amplifying
appreciating
boosting
compounding
escalating
extending
multiplying
proliferating
raising
rising
accelerating
ballooning
booming
bourgeoning
burgeoning
enhancing
enlarging
gaining
gathering
growing
mounting
mushrooming
snowballing
spreading
stoking
supersizing
upping
waxing
climbing
developing
fortifying
heightening
hyping
improving
intensifying
reinforcing
strengthening
adding to
growing in
mounting up
picking up
pumping up
rolling up
getting stronger
stocking up
magnifying
building
inflating
beefing up
stepping up
widening
rocketing
advancing
deepening
broadening
jacking up
elevating
hiking up
lifting
soaring
shooting up
exacerbating
aggravating
redoubling
upgrading
supplementing
accruing
skyrocketing
spiraling
US
spiralling
UK
progressing
amassing
bumping up
surging
hiking
amping up
making greater
consolidating
flourishing
accentuating
adding
incrementing
making larger
padding
going up
blowing up
cranking up
dilating
making bigger
topping up
enriching
furthering
growing rapidly
lengthening
getting bigger
thickening
thriving
inflaming
exaggerating
intensating
worsening
increasing rapidly
maximizing
US
bettering
exalting
doubling
distending
ameliorating
maximising
UK
prospering
parlaying
blooming
fleshing out
cultivating
making worse
filling out
becoming more numerous
pyramiding
piling up
going through the roof
running up
jumping up
sharpening
annexing
tripling
rousing
spiking
stretching
making better
uplifting
springing up
increasing in size
upsurging
feeding
cumulating
boosting up
going through the ceiling
leaping up
collecting
pumping
optimizing
US
embellishing
emphasizing
US
elaborating
fattening
emphasising
UK
sprouting
protracting
pullulating
marking up
slapping on
propagating
stimulating
perfecting
optimising
UK
flowing
becoming larger
filling
exploding
building on
scaling up
gaining strength
getting larger
rising rapidly
arising
toning up
flowering
promoting
putting up
increasing exponentially
jumping
working up
running riot
sweetening
souping up
pushing up
concentrating
stressing
puffing up
prolonging
reenforcing
diversifying
evolving
teeming
swarming
stockpiling
refining
nurturing
ratcheting up
tacking on
upscaling
festering
succeeding
acquiring
maturing
fostering
uprising
bolstering
increasing in scope
nourishing
polishing
brightening
ascending
leaping
piling on
heating up
meliorating
increasing in value
smartening up
topping
increasing dramatically
bloating
fattening up
turning up
fine-tuning
jazzing up
toning
spreading out
buttressing
bucking up
touching up
stuffing
coming on
endowing
making progress
making healthy
springing
being successful
speeding up
shoring up
making headway
brushing up
reequipping
securing
puffing out
becoming bigger
peaking
breeding
fanning the flames of
sending up
growing larger
growing greater
injecting
spurring on
rounding out
making louder
expatiating
growing quickly
aggregating
manifolding
piling
ramping up
tagging on
turbocharging
piggybacking
blossoming
becoming greater
diffusing
upsizing
fetching up
sending through the roof
goosing up
rising in value
doing well
spurting
opening
outspreading
going sky-high
spiraling upwards
increasing suddenly
branching out
aping up
inclining
reaching
pervading
metastasizing
becoming large
starting to be
getting to
growing full
advertizing
advertising
revitalizing
US
fermenting
billowing
surging up
getting higher
stacking up
increasing in weight
getting taller
escalading
towering
vaulting
becoming more powerful
putting on a spurt
revitalising
UK
rallying
luxuriating
harshening
becoming strong
becoming stronger
smoldering
US
smouldering
UK
brewing
overrunning
pouring
raining
developing quickly
emerging
spreading quickly
going up in price
growing stronger
welling
tending
fuelling
fueling
US
developing rapidly
complementing
filling up
subsidizing
US
rounding off
supplying
subsidising
UK
eking out
adding fuel to fire
broadening one's horizons
extending operations
issuing
going off
bursting
detonating
bursting forth
scaling
amending
helping
adding insult to injury
adding fuel to the flames
conditioning
making complex
adding fuel to the fire
making intricate
complicating
rubbing salt in the wound
rearming
getting into shape
confusing
confounding
totting
going from bad to worse
ensuing
following
making richer
adding value
hopping up
overstating
improving on
upraising
going great guns
bearing fruit
coming along
getting on well
stirring
adding fuel to
keeping burning
rekindling
mending
poking
quickening
overplaying
dramatizing
US
embroidering
blowing something out of all proportion
surcharging
stretching the truth
overestimating
overdoing
dramatising
UK
cramming
overemphasising
UK
making a big thing out of
hyperbolizing
blowing up out of all proportion
driving up
overemphasizing
US
swelling up
following up
jacking
elongating
reflating
whetting
lightening
darkening
accenting
pointing
producing
putting fuel on
stoking up
underlining
forging ahead
straightening out
updating
moving forward
working out
shaping up
smartening
fast-tracking
making strides
heaping on
adding fuel
setting off
vitalizing
invigorating
giving a lift to
polishing up
titivating
envigorating
driving forward
sprucing up
encouraging the growth of
favouring
UK
favoring
US
aiding
giving a facelift to
giving a boost to
doing up
adding value to
perking up
benefiting
benefitting
inspiriting
advantaging
contributing to
pouring it on
enforcing
increasing in
putting on
acquiring more of something
adding on
expounding
detailing
practicing
US
honing
working on
practising
UK
sustaining
making stronger
nursing
nerving
nutrifying
readying
giving strength to
making strong
providing for
preparing
poising
explicating
giving substance to
feeding up
more ❯
“None of us are going to
build up
our savings balance by relying on high interest alone.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to come, accumulate or gather together into a single mass or collection
accreting
accumulating
amassing
collecting
massing
concentrating
conglomerating
gathering
piling up
stacking up
heaping up
stockpiling
hoarding
garnering
piling
storing
storing up
laying in
laying up
scraping together
racking up
assembling
saving
heaping
stashing
running up
treasuring
stashing away
totting up
stocking up
caching
grouping
lumping
stacking
stocking
squirreling away
stowing
laying by
setting aside
salting away
laying away
putting away
rounding up
putting aside
putting down
keeping
stowing away
reserving
keeping in reserve
scaring up
putting by
accruing
picking up
mounding
getting hold of
drawing together
depositing
loading up on
cleaning up
letting settle
bunching
dumping
bundling up
merging
gathering up
agglomerating
cumulating
layering
making a pile of
making a stack of
banking
making a mound of
amounding
constellating
compiling
aggregating
bulking up
congregating
corralling
keeping on hand
putting away for a rainy day
stocking up on
buying up
building up stocks
gleaning
scrounging
rustling up
mustering
raising
scraping up
raking up
scratching together
raking together
dredging up
bringing together
squirreling
US
hiding
scrimping
acquiring
putting aside for rainy day
socking away
husbanding
saving up
putting by for a rainy day
laying aside
packing
hiving
conserving
preserving
hiding away
putting to one side
stocking up with
putting aside for a rainy day
tucking away
loading up
culling
getting together
putting together
mounting up
gathering in
adding up
pulling in
hilling
retaining
withholding
holding
possessing
shelving
keeping possession of
holding back
filing
concealing
stifling
keeping hold of
keeping for oneself
repressing
retaining possession of
laying down
hanging onto
holding on to
holding in
keeping to yourself
holding fast to
hanging on to
clinging to
holding onto
setting by
more ❯
“The sediment will
build up
in a process called sedimentation, eventually creating fertile land.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to provide encouragement to
encouraging
motivating
spurring
boosting
building
buoying
emboldening
inspiriting
rallying
steeling
stirring
bolstering
cheering
filliping
galvanising
UK
galvanizing
US
heartening
inciting
envigorating
invigorating
kindling
piquing
rousing
uplifting
animating
arousing
assuring
driving
empowering
energising
UK
energizing
US
inspiring
instigating
vitalizing
activating
buoying up
pumping up
boosting up
firing up
spurring on
stirring up
cheering on
pepping up
whipping up
stimulating
enlivening
strengthening
revitalizing
US
fortifying
revitalising
UK
restoring
refreshing
reviving
bucking up
bracing
exciting
quickening
giving a shot in the arm to
revivifying
moving
exhilarating
rejuvenating
raising
giving a boost to
renewing
reinvigorating
triggering
propping up
regenerating
resuscitating
reanimating
sustaining
livening up
awakening
firing
vivifying
priming
breathing new life into
working up
reinforcing
gingering up
perking up
giving new strength to
jazzing up
reassuring
impassioning
sparking
brightening
revving up
provoking
gladdening
cheering up
inflaming
rekindling
dynamizing
inducing
resurrecting
generating
whetting
causing
reawakening
engendering
electrifying
recharging
producing
freshening
occasioning
spiking
juicing up
getting going again
promoting
putting zip into
enabling
enkindling
zipping up
zapping
jump-starting
amping up
putting some spark into
helping
refreshening
activizing
breeding
prompting
kick-starting
repairing
recreating
innervating
arming
switching on
turning on
livening
vivificating
starting up
innerving
saving
elating
brightening up
lightening
giving a lift to
lifting
elevating
incentifying
making confident
picking up
giving courage to
reconditioning
pushing
applauding
regaining
replenishing
making whole
bouncing back
touching up
reactivating
waking up
modernising
UK
relieving
rewaking
prodding
recovering
modernizing
US
rewakening
renovating
putting new life into
updating
bringing back to life
giving a new lease on life
swaying
enforcing
disinhibiting
goading
comforting
egging
jumpstarting
incentivizing
enheartening
moving to action
enthusing
igniting
reenforcing
bearing up
nudging
chirking up
evoking
abetting
eliciting
begetting
fomenting
fostering
leading to
making for
bestirring
drawing forth
sparking off
making
beginning
invoking
exercising
precipitating
resulting in
calling forth
bringing about
setting off
wakening
touching off
suscitating
giving rise to
contributing to
brewing
bringing on
fermenting
consoling
praising
pricking
giving shot in arm
lighting a fire under
bielding
geeing up
spiriting up
raising your spirits
giving confidence to
boosting morale
raising the morale of
giving hope to
psyching up
stimulating spiritually
lifting the spirits of
stiffening the resolve of
agitating
curing
rescuing
improving
making healthy
healing
bringing back
getting up
cultivating
mustering up
hatching
revamping
overhauling
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
reconstructing
redeveloping
rehabilitating
re-establishing
refurbishing
mending
restarting
rebuilding
refitting
fixing
reestablishing
fixing up
doing up
sprucing
remaking
making over
relaunching
giving a new lease of life to
bringing up to date
enhancing
bringing around
reconstituting
restituting
patching
rectifying
retouching
vamping up
reenergizing
rehabbing
resuming
reinventing
reopening
reinstating
doctoring
reworking
zhooshing
furbishing
restating
servicing
replacing
reaffirming
re-creating
rebooting
zhooshing up
reinstituting
reproducing
redecorating
recalling
retreading
amending
changing
upgrading
sprucing up
remastering
enriching
supporting
bringing up to code
redeeming
going over
coming to life
straightening out
adding some colour to
giving a new look to
tuning
setting right
getting into shape
delighting
reintroducing
rebranding
reinstalling
reorganizing
US
refurnishing
fanning
brushing up
revisiting
cleaning
reincarnating
reorganising
UK
reliving
titillating
impelling
recapturing
doing
recycling
increasing
nerving
blowing away the cobwebs
rediscovering
commoving
reforming
putting new heart into
rejoicing
emending
waking
freshening up
prettifying
embellishing
relaxing
revising
correcting
adding some zest to
redrafting
raising from the dead
experiencing again
giving the kiss of life to
beautifying
gracing
tarting up
spicing up
snapping up
putting new life in
making good
giving new life to
giving someone a kick
raising the spirits
giving something a facelift
giving a buzz
making better
dressing up
easing
setting to rights
making lighter
making brighter
getting going
summoning up
making more attractive
making more exciting
salvaging
salvageing
recrudescing
cooling
jogging
reigniting
relighting
reshaping
remarketing
unwinding
starting
redoing
turning around
transforming
restyling
refashioning
revolutionizing
US
reconnecting
bringing to
developing
giving courage
reclaiming
repeating
topping up
tempting
cooling down
copying
redesigning
redevising
boosting moral
making brave
making younger
restoring vitality to
changing radically
urging
actuating
dispatching
springing
growing
injecting new life into
raising spirits
converting
giving face lift to
shaking up
making young again
leavening
making braver
awaking
gentrifying
lifting the morale of
giving confidence
giving pep talk
re-embodying
cleansing
retrieving
seasoning
making fit for use
bringing into the twenty-first century
reexperiencing
revolutionising
UK
restoring to life
giving a shot in the arm
making someone feel young again
re-forming
conjuring up
looking up
accelerating
fuelling
fueling
US
recollecting
face-lifting
calling up
lightening up
loosening up
speeding
gussying up
remembering
taking a load off
intensifying
replaying
refinding
stinging
adding colour to
putting some spirit into
making more interesting
adding spice to
living through again
bringing to mind
going back to
discovering again
digging up
returning to
finding again
going through again
summoning back
thrilling
adjusting
setting up
making swing
putting some life into
hotting up
making something go with a bang
polishing
beefing up
tempering
remediating
fine-tuning
maintaining
ameliorating
bettering
honing
mitigating
meliorating
refining
moderating
editing
benefiting
facilitating
benefitting
perfecting
fining
intoxicating
keying up
pleasing
emendating
righting
speeding up
gratifying
enrapturing
altering
modifying
rewriting
redrawing
hardening
steaming up
acting as a incentive to
acting as a stimulus to
acting as a spur to
building a fire under
acting as a fillip to
acting as a impetus to
getting one started
charging
redressing
transporting
warming
placating
soothing
sending
exalting
juicing
pepping
satisfying
contenting
gladding
pleasuring
calming
suiting
doctoring up
gassing
feasting
putting new heart in
assuaging
condoling
giving someone a charge
putting new strength in
turning someone on
bringing joy to
agreeing with
tickling pink
giving someone pleasure
making someone feel good
making happy
giving a lift
making very happy
giving someone a thrill
giving someone great pleasure
giving condolences to
commiserating
condoling with
giving sympathy to
palliating
succouring
UK
making one feel at ease
allaying
composing
besoothing
making well
bringing comfort to
commiserating with
pacifying
mollifying
lightening burden
empathizing with
succoring
US
solacing
giving solace to
sympathizing with
putting at ease
salving
quieting fears
more ❯
“Thomas felt compelled to send Kikuchi a note to
build up
his confidence.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone)
advertising
advertizing
promoting
plugging
publicising
UK
publicizing
US
pushing
hyping
puffing
spotlighting
boosting
merchandising
talking up
puffing up
giving publicity to
banging the drum for
beating the drum for
giving a puff to
touting
ballyhooing
pitching
endorsing
selling
hyping up
bringing to public notice
billing
marketing
promulgating
trumpeting
peddling
publishing
flogging
flaunting
blazoning
declaring
proclaiming
flashing
broadcasting
heralding
spruiking
announcing
advancing
displaying
blazing
circularizing
US
trailing
spotting
apprising
soft selling
running with
placarding
cracking up
getting on soapbox for
presenting
shouting from the rooftops
advising
calling attention to
annunciating
blurbing
huckstering
alerting
releasing
giving notice of
making a pitch
trailering
uncovering
putting on the map
enunciating
acquainting
splashing
sponsoring
exhibiting
giving a plug to
unmasking
notifying
revealing
informing
making public
shouting out
sounding
drumming
exposing
praising
beating the drum
made known
spreading abroad
disclosing
writing up
posting
spreading around
circularising
UK
communicating
flacking
giving out
divulging
blaring
showing
bigging up
pumping up
mentioning
commending
drawing attention to
namechecking
spinning
giving a mention to
playing up
spreading about
packaging
airing
circulating
disseminating
reporting
spreading
conveying
transmitting
stating
imparting
unveiling
bruiting
expressing
featuring
pronouncing
issuing
brandishing
putting out
showcasing
bruiting about
telling
flourishing
parading
passing on
uttering
voicing
propagating
indicating
venting
suggesting
recommending
disporting
producing
setting forth
showing off
propagandizing
US
putting into words
asserting
showboating
raising
articulating
propagandising
UK
spieling
crying
sporting
strutting
advocating
rolling out
manifesting
relaying
putting across
laying out
distributing
trotting out
coming out with
getting across
talking about
professing
affirming
saying
intimating
ventilating
noising abroad
evincing
passing
introducing
blazoning abroad
verbalizing
US
delivering
bringing to public attention
hawking
relating
purveying
repeating
putting forward
registering
verbalising
UK
giving voice to
leaking
offering for sale
putting up for sale
putting on display
putting on show
spelling out
projecting
calling
aggrandizing
demonstrating
extolling
headlining
propounding
preaching
vaunting
popularizing
US
dealing in
passing the word
unfolding
maintaining
expounding
denoting
signalling
UK
signaling
US
illustrating
mooting
shouting
discussing
bespeaking
intoning
phrasing
recounting
purporting
emphasizing
US
talking of
stressing
detailing
outlining
admitting
championing
putting about
clarifying
bruiting abroad
confessing
emphasising
UK
giving utterance to
giving expression to
putting
bringing into the open
waving around
making a show of
giving away
bringing out
boasting
vending
popularising
UK
staging
gossipping
gossiping
gazetting
trading
decreeing
encouraging
blasting
retailing
rumouring
rumoring
preconizing
exchanging
evidencing
putting on view
setting out
trafficking in
noising
vocalizing
US
espousing
protesting
tabling
sounding off
spouting
citing
wording
debating
claiming
betraying
letting it be known
submitting
speaking of
ostending
marking
proposing
connoting
alleging
opining
arguing
mouthing
testifying
pressing
looking
giving
describing
asseverating
broaching
averring
breaking
speaking
spilling
avouching
muttering
spreading the word
framing
putting on the market
implying
vocalising
UK
modulating
addressing
offering
explaining
rendering
printing
flashing about
whispering
translating
summarizing
US
summarising
UK
letting on
letting it all hang out
making an exhibition of
putting in a good word for
getting out
making clear
making a great show of
popping off
laying down
getting off
speaking about
displaying ostentatiously
signifying
going into
topping
barking
backing
supplying
previewing
bragging
making popular
swaggering
giving notice
passing round
celebrating
swanking
beating the drum about
putting up in lights
screaming
crowing
splattering
campaigning for
tweeting
getting behind
grandstanding
gloating
baring
sounding loudly
overpraising
inscribing
depicting
crying up
telecasting
springing
building
immortalising
UK
soft-selling
immortalizing
US
skywriting
calling out
issuing a statement about
acknowledging
streaming
ringing out
making obvious
making manifest
reading out
making a pitch for
having printed
blowing wide open
putting before the public
speaking well of
blowing up
tooting
showing excerpts of
pumping out
putting in print
trading in
arraying
running off at mouth
lodging
talking
waving
dangling
handing on
outing
making official
disposing of
putting on sale
modelling
UK
modeling
US
examining
streaking
hotdogging
putting on the airwaves
ringing up
letting out
getting through
letting on about
sharing
writing
postulating
arranging
hanging
shifting
bringing up
scrutinizing
US
sifting
parading one's wares
strutting stuff
putting on a display
showing to the public
putting on public view
reflecting
putting on the air
wielding
talking over
taking up
scrutinising
UK
discoursing
bringing out into the open
freeing
giving an airing to
threshing out
deliberating
smacking with
throwing in one's face
springing on
breaking out
whipping out
making a scene
fanning it
exclaiming
coming out
bandying about
passing around
going the rounds
leaking out
exulting in
blazing abroad
evoking
betokening
furthering
televising
remarking
reciting
attesting
noting
stumping
proselytizing
US
putting on
inferring
predicating
enouncing
blurting
vouching
mumbling
pleading
orating
contending
chattering
persuading
proselytising
UK
hustling
yakking
yammering
lipping
gassing
gabbing
blabbing
chirping
soliloquizing
declaiming
retelling
drawling
murmuring
specifying
perorating
regurgitating
rehearsing
reading
swearing
narrating
quoting
jawing
piping
stating publicly
sweet talking
bringing someone round to
soft-soaping
getting support for
getting acceptance for
winning someone over to
winning approval for
speaking for
convincing someone of the merits of
persuading someone to accept
talking into
gaining acceptance for
merchandizing
reeling off
sounding out
throwing out
piping up with
putting forth
shooting off one's mouth
spreading it around
shouting from the housetops
turning over
persuading people to buy
couching
telling of
pointing to
pointing toward
getting on a soapbox
informing people
importing
designating
formulating
avowing
hinting
insinuating
inflecting
intonating
roaring
allegating
yelling
reaffirming
clothing
reasserting
spreading the news
telling people
letting people know
bartering
wholesaling
pointing out
attesting to
pouring out
making out
giving expression
giving testimony
bringing forward
putting over
giving vent to
putting in words
getting over
speaking out
testifying to
giving utterance
bearing witness
highlighting
punctuating
underscoring
putting up
accentuating
underlining
illuminating
foregrounding
accenting
focusing attention on
making a feature of
making conspicuous
pointing up
italicizing
US
giving the full works
setting off
italicising
UK
giving prominence to
more ❯
“We want to be able to
build up
the latest album and get the fans wanting our new music.”
Verb
▲
(
of a settlement
)
Present participle for to plan and begin the building of
building
constructing
erecting
assembling
developing
forming
creating
elevating
founding
designing
establishing
raising
putting up
setting up
laying out
putting in place
starting to build
laying the foundations of
making
putting together
manufacturing
fabricating
fashioning
shaping
producing
confecting
making up
forging
engineering
bringing about
molding
US
piecing together
fitting together
moulding
UK
knocking together
planning
reconstructing
modeling
US
modelling
UK
piecing
contriving
rearing
prefabricating
compiling
superstructing
framing
throwing together
joining
casting
composing
sculpturing
constituting
jerry-building
structuring
throwing up
laying plans for
patching up
joining up
welding
sewing up
sewing
connecting
fitting
knocking off
crafting
turning out
hammering out
coining
knocking up
edifying
synthesising
UK
carpentering
synthesizing
US
evolving
architecting
arranging
organizing
US
ordering
giving structure to
organising
UK
configuring
making a map of
making a representation of
making a drawing of
drawing up a layout of
drawing up a plan of
prefabbing
whipping up
putting out
cobbling up
compounding
concocting
preparing
inventing
devising
rustling up
cooking up
formulating
fixing
cobbling together
originating
drawing up
generating
mass-producing
bringing together
knocking out
drafting
sculpting
rendering
churning out
patterning
carving
running up
improvising
outlining
completing
providing
systemizing
executing
processing
working
blocking out
fudging together
mixing
spawning
yielding
begetting
writing
readying
hewing
kneading
whittling
effecting
cutting
sketching out
manipulating
patching together
setting
plotting
conceiving
brewing
orchestrating
rigging up
banging out
fixing up
coming up with
dreaming up
mounting
uniting
inditing
plying
marshaling
US
systematizing
US
gathering
collating
marshalling
UK
styling
implementing
actualizing
hatching
fixing in position
writing out
setting down
cultivating
rattling off
sorting out
collecting
combining
amassing
anthologizing
linking
accumulating
pulling together
eking out
whipping out
propagating
fixing together
accomplishing
machining
cobbling
milling
tooling
comping
stamping
harvesting
procuring
bringing into existence
thinking up
drawing together
systematising
UK
bringing out
tracing
projecting
scheming
finishing
perfecting
consummating
fingering
thumbing
releasing
issuing
authoring
cranking out
drumming up
diagramming
rigging
strategizing
beginning
carving out
choreographing
conjuring up
comprising
bringing
machinating
advancing
starting up
deciding
translating into
diagraming
bringing on
determining
adapting
pumping out
brainstorming
grinding out
trotting out
coordinating
jury-rigging
scaring up
adjusting
getting ready
preparing hastily
instituting
sketching
carrying out
scheduling
putting on
planning for
blocking
tailoring
conditioning
vamping
effectuating
making preparations for
preparing for
penciling in
laying on
making arrangements for
having
throwing
smoothing
trimming
suiting
conforming
chiseling
US
patting
doctoring
editing
minting
crystallizing
US
chiselling
UK
accommodating
roughhewing
crystallising
UK
whomping up
hashing out
more ❯
“The early Hohokam would
build up
a series of small villages along the middle Gila River.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for countdown, preparation
getting ready
making ready
preparing
anticipating
arranging
fitting
constructing
assembling
formulating
producing
readying
developing
composing
fabricating
making
fashioning
forming
conceiving
equipping
adjusting
framing
adapting
devising
planning
crafting
supplying
contriving
concocting
charting
laying
calculating
designing
editing
drafting
organizing
US
choreographing
accoutreing
perfecting
fixing
accoutring
projecting
furnishing
outfitting
casting
prepping
blueprinting
budgeting
shaping
scheming out
fitting out
appointing
strategizing about
smoothing the way
getting up
setting up
jacking up
making up
drawing up
grooming
turning out
filling in
making provision
putting in order
working out
endowing
working up
laying out
organising
UK
thinking up
putting together
mapping out
settling on
scheduling
determining
setting
deciding
settling
tailoring
establishing
scheming
resolving
quarterbacking
managing
coordinating
directing
ironing out
coming to an agreement
making arrangements for
coming to terms about
fixing up
shaping up
making plans for
penciling in
coming to terms
pulling things together
agreeing on
setting stage
making plans
agreeing to
making preparations for
preparing for
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms
magnifying
exaggerating
overstating
enhancing
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
overplaying
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
embellishing
embroidering
inflating
overdoing
amplifying
coloring
US
colouring
UK
hyperbolizing
overestimating
overrating
padding
stretching
aggrandizing
blowing up
aggravating
elaborating on
fudging
overcharging
overdrawing
overstressing
pyramiding
puffing up
drawing the long bow
making a mountain out of
making a big thing out of
making a federal case of
making a production out of
making mountain of molehill
making a mountain out of a molehill
blowing up out of all proportion
heightening
expanding
enlarging
emphasizing
US
emphasising
UK
puffing
blowing out of proportion
boosting
falsifying
exalting
fabricating
bragging
boasting
hiking
catastrophizing
lying
making too much of something
playing up
distorting
elaborating
corrupting
caricaturing
misrepresenting
misreporting
misquoting
romanticizing
US
cooking up
romanticising
UK
going to extremes
putting on
laying it on thick
stretching the truth
overvaluing
intensifying
overselling
magnifying importance
blowing up out of proportion
overpitching
upping
overexaggerating
scamming
romancing
piling it on
making a big thing of
adding colour
laying it on with a trowel
blowing something out of all proportion
laying it on with a shovel
laying on
shooting a line
drawing the longbow
prettying up
loud talking
piling it on about
laying it on thick about
bigging up
varnishing
gilding
making a drama out of a crisis
laying it on with a trowel about
overelaborating
overembellishing
touching up
yeasting
distending
enlarging on
fleshing out
adding flesh to
gingering up
adding detail to
jazzing up
spreading on thick
exaggerating information
making federal case
dressing up
making mountain out of molehill
going into detail about
emphasizing too much
hams up
laying it on
making a production of
sensationalizing
US
play-acting
melodramatizing
enacting
executing
making a performance of
playacting
playing on heartstrings
presenting
acting
splashing
tragedizing
expanding on
hamming it up
giving color to
producing
staging
performing
sensationalising
UK
playing to gallery
playing to the gallery
burlesquing
showing
overdramatizing
overusing
carrying
doing to death
going overboard with
piling on
belabouring
UK
camping up
pressuring
overburdening
belaboring
US
fatiguing
overreaching
overindulging
hyping
overtiring
overtaxing
overloading
overworking
straining yourself
driving oneself
running riot
wearing down
biting off too much
going too far
wearing yourself out
running into the ground
making a big deal out of something
making a big thing about
making a thing of
talking big
going overboard
making a thing about
pulling the longbow
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to become improved or more advanced
progressing
developing
advancing
evolving
growing
improving
maturing
upgrading
augmenting
refining
updating
ameliorating
expanding
modernising
UK
modernizing
US
revolutionising
UK
revolutionizing
US
transforming
blossoming
flourishing
increasing
making progress
prospering
thriving
building
coming along
coming of age
coming on
gaining ground
getting better
getting on
making headway
making strides
moving on
scaling up
shaping up
taking steps forward
working up
bettering
growing up
rolling up
becoming better
ripening
straightening up
making first rate
turning over new leaf
unfolding
enlarging
elaborating
changing
unrolling
moving
pushing
altering
spreading
driving
metamorphosing
emerging
extending
differentiating
transmogrifying
going
adapting
proceeding
heading
shooting
continuing
speeding
educing
deriving
trucking
moving forward
pushing forward
pushing ahead
pressing on
forging ahead
pressing forward
moving onward
moving ahead
going forth
pushing on
covering ground
working one's way
working out
marching on
opening out
going forward
adapting yourself
blooming
aging
US
ageing
UK
flowering
seasoning
maturating
mushrooming
doing well
culminating
burgeoning
reaching adulthood
succeeding
arriving
booming
shining
going well
being successful
shooting up
making inroads
faring well
developing well
making it
bearing fruit
spreading your wings
getting places
getting ahead
flying high
going places
perfecting
priming
mellowing
rising
starring
bourgeoning
excelling
standing out
figuring
taking shape
picking up
reigning supreme
having a gift for
making the big time
going to town
getting on well
turning out well
standing out in a crowd
moving forward in leaps and bounds
hitting it big
stealing the show
showing improvement
reaching maturity
becoming adult
developing fully
rounding out
filling out
triumphing
prevailing
leading
performing
arising
featuring
sparkling
glowing
getting ready
coming about
getting somewhere
wearing the crown
running riot
having a gift
going great guns
coming into your own
growing ripe
making ripe
becoming tender
becoming ripe
coming to maturity
coming to fruition
growing old
becoming older
putting mileage on
advancing in years
becoming old
getting along
growing older
growing feeble
profiting
scoring
yielding
battening
waxing
producing
cracking on
having legs
making a go
catching on
becoming rich
making good
going ahead
doing wonders
growing rich
growing well
making good speed
growing vigorously
getting there
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to express approval or admiration of
praising
commending
acclaiming
complimenting
extolling
lauding
admiring
aggrandizing
celebrating
endorsing
honoring
US
honouring
UK
applauding
appreciating
cheering
congratulating
eulogising
UK
eulogizing
US
hailing
speaking highly of
accrediting
ballyhooing
boosting
crediting
encouraging
heaping praise on
panegyrizing
paying tribute to
saluting
singing the praises of
toasting
touting
advocating
approving of
cracking up
ennobling
expressing admiration for
expressing approval of
handing it to
paying homage to
paying respects to
proclaiming
puffing up
raving about
recommending
sanctioning
saying nice things about
showing appreciation for
speaking well of
waxing lyrical about
bigging up
citing
clapping
crying up
dignifying
distinguishing
going into raptures about
making much of
praising to the skies
taking one's hat off to
throwing bouquets at
glorifying
magnifying
exalting
lionizing
US
emblazoning
lionising
UK
hymning
blessing
idolizing
US
elevating
resounding
caroling
US
carolling
UK
augmenting
idolising
UK
putting on a pedestal
glamorizing
US
romanticizing
US
idealizing
US
revering
glamourizing
venerating
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
reverencing
apotheosizing
glamouring up
idealising
UK
glamorising
UK
romanticising
UK
enhancing
promoting
approving
raising
stroking
increasing
canonizing
US
enshrining
deifying
lifting
canonising
UK
putting up
countenancing
building
mentioning
looking on with favour
esteeming
hero-worshipping
giving a posy
hearing it for
haloing
erecting
intensifying
subliming
transfiguring
uprearing
holding in awe
looking up to
holding in high regard
holding in high esteem
immortalizing
US
setting on a pedestal
setting on pedestal
adding dignity to
adorning
lifting up
welcoming
adoring
adding distinction to
singing
heroizing
immortalising
UK
adding lustre to
hiking
sounding the praises of
rhapsodizing about
rhapsodizing over
singing paeans to
flattering
bigging something up
waxing lyrical
advancing
upgrading
preferring
sublimating
enskying
enthroning
furthering
appointing
improving
hoisting
improving the position of
moving up the ladder
stepping up
raising high
giving promotion
giving advancement to
kicking upstairs
giving a higher rank
improving the status of
moving up
giving advancement
commemorating
recognizing
US
respecting
adulating
recognising
UK
sanctifying
hallowing
memorializing
US
valuing
memorialising
UK
acknowledging
raving
prizing
loving
going into raptures over
observing
solemnizing
US
rooting
solemnising
UK
showing appreciation of
rhapsodizing
US
vaunting
cherishing
decorating
favouring
UK
favoring
US
praying to
praising enthusiastically
bowing down to
gushing about
enthusing about
enthusing over
treasuring
offering prayers to
singing praises to
rhapsodising
UK
feting
gushing over
giving thanks to
regarding
rolling out red carpet
giving recognition to
thinking highly of
cracking someone up
expressing delight over
going on about
going wild about
gushing
hurrahing
publicizing
US
hurraying
supporting
raving over
publicising
UK
thanking
plugging
felicitating
effusing
signalizing
US
fussing
singing praises
slobbering
pushing
enthusing
eternizing
drooling
signalising
UK
effervescing
rooting for
giving a bouquet
giving a big hand
rating highly
giving it up for
holding in esteem
giving bouquet
holding dear
giving accolades to
giving credit to
marveling at
having a high regard for
holding in respect
making immortal
patting on back
giving key to city
giving glad hand
keeping alive the memory of
heralding
holding high
perpetuating
eternalizing
celebritizing
trumpeting
affirming
upholding
remembering
paying respects
keeping
monumentalizing
considering
mobbing
preserving
giving approval
giving kudos
singing praises of
taking off hat to
marking
bestowing honour on
beatifying
illuminating
mythifying
giving praise to
making famous
expressing admiration of
expressing approval for
doting on
bowing down before
showing gratitude to
making a fuss over
making a fuss of
showing respect
rolling out the red carpet
giving ovation
expressing respect for
having a high opinion of
giving a hand
showing appreciation
whistling
embracing
liking
regarding highly
thinking much of
giving a standing ovation
putting your hands together
belauding
bubbling over
thinking the world of
wondering at
holding in the highest regard
thinking a lot of
relishing
rating
valuing highly
extolling the virtues of
attaching importance to
yelling
shouting
giving a round of applause
hooting
setting great store by
setting store by
going mad
going into raptures
going wild
going crazy
bubbling
giving a big cigar
wishing happy returns
wishing joy to
giving regards
wishing one well
rejoicing with
talking excitedly
showing enthusiasm
going over the top
getting all worked up
bringing the house down
shouting for
standing in awe of
hollering for
cheering on
falling all over
making a to-do
carrying on about
holding sacred
rising to
sounding off for
bragging about
giving a boost to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to flatter or compliment excessively
praising
flattering
complimenting
adoring
adulating
revering
venerating
elevating
glorifying
inveigling
lionising
UK
lionizing
US
stroking
bootlicking
cajoling
fawning over
gushing over
raving over
sweet-talking
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
brownnosing
brown-nosing
buttering up
falling all over
kissing one's feet
playing up to
putting on a pedestal
sucking up to
working over
complimenting excessively
laying it on thick
soft-soaping
spreading it on
working on
overpraising
charming
humouring
UK
blarneying
humoring
US
wheedling
honeying
fawning
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
rubbing the right way
blandishing
courting
puffing
massaging
oiling
belauding
softening
fawning on
hero-worshipping
flannelling
flanneling
toadying
panegyrizing
snowing
beslavering
smooth-talking
expressing admiration for
waxing lyrical about
pandering to
catering to
ingratiating oneself with
slavering
puffing up
buttering up to
stroking one's ego
exalting
soothing
fawning upon
roosing
persuading
admiring
commending
coaxing
paying tribute to
lauding
kowtowing to
toadying to
abasing oneself to
prevailing on
crawling to
paying blandishments to
talking into
keeping someone sweet
making up to
currying favour
paying court to
curry favoring with
making much of
salving
creeping to
demeaning oneself to
sucking up
truckling to
bowing and scrape to
rubbing up the right way
dancing attendance on
curry favouring with
curry favoring
getting on the right side of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
getting round
saying nice things about
laying it on with a trowel
kowtowing
truckling
crawling
wooing
licking someone's boots
apple-polishing
beguiling
creeping
enticing
cringing
inducing
tempting
luring
influencing
fussing
pandering
winning over
prostrating oneself
bowing and scraping
ingratiating yourself
seducing
urging
cowering
palavering
humbling oneself
abasing yourself
laying it on
swaying
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
alluring
worming
bringing round
getting
stooping
behaving obsequiously
conning
honeying up
smoodging to
paying court
kisses up to
seeking the favour of
trying to get on the good side of
falling on one's knees
submitting
yielding
deferring
crouching
pressing
abasing oneself before
kneeling
hooking
wangling
scratching one's back
soaping
eating crow
prevailing upon
giving in
deferring to
importuning
trying to win over
roping in
bartering
arguing into
cultivating
ingratiating
arm-twisting
softening up
knuckling under
kissing-up
kissing the feet of
submitting to
getting around
playing up
kissing someone's feet
conceding
back-scratching
getting in with
cozying up
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
winning the favor of
sweet talking
overdoing it
giving way
bending the knee
making up
smoodging
pestering
plaguing
teasing
decoying
coming on
encouraging
talking someone into something
jawboning
twisting one's arm
talking blarney
using flattery
quailing
pampering
bowing to
genuflecting
imploring
demeaning oneself
sniveling
US
showing respect for
eating dirt
snivelling
UK
talking
selling
drawing
prostrating
saying uncle
bending
toing the mark
folding
lying down and rolling over
going along with
caving in
making
prodding
convincing
finagling
coercing
sweetening up
arguing
reasoning
eulogizing
US
grovelling before
cringing before
smarming around
inviting
jollying
bowing
falling over oneself for
cottoning
debasing
praising to excess
eulogising
UK
abasing
scraping
praising to the skies
caving in to
bowing and scrape before
singing the praises of
buddying up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bring together or amass as a single group or collection
gathering
concentrating
massing
amassing
conglomerating
uniting
concentring
concentering
constellating
corralling
heaping
lumping
marshalling
UK
marshaling
US
associating
piling up
bunching up
closing with
drawing in
drawing together
joining together
stacking up
collecting
accumulating
accreting
clustering
aggregating
coalescing
agglomerating
rounding up
snowballing
mobilizing
US
mobilising
UK
gathering together
converging
assembling
consolidating
centreing
centering
meeting
grouping
foregathering
convening
forgathering
congesting
unifying
centring
compacting
bunching
focalizing
integrating
localizing
US
crowding
combining
centralizing
US
piling
localising
UK
centralising
UK
bulking up
heaping up
coming together
zeroing in
garnering
scaring up
lumping together
throwing together
pulling together
focusing
joining
focussing
bringing to a focus
bringing together
intensifying
medializing
congregating
flocking
thronging
herding
pressing
packing
cramming
jamming
squeezing
hugging
cowering
huddling together
snuggling up
huddling up
pressing close
thronging together
huddling
crowding together
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to start or establish
creating
establishing
forming
founding
instituting
launching
starting
authorising
UK
authorizing
US
basing
building
constituting
enacting
initiating
installing
legislating
organising
UK
organizing
US
setting up
bringing about
inaugurating
laying foundation
predicating
ratifying
securing
setting down
stationing
corroborating
decreeing
erecting
lodging
placing
planting
domiciliating
getting going
getting moving
getting something working
implanting
inculcating
investing
kicking off
laying the foundations of
mooring
originating
putting in place
Verb
▲
(
of a theory or suggestion
)
Present participle for to put forward
advancing
presenting
declaring
posing
proffering
putting forward
advocating
airing
expounding
introducing
proposing
propositioning
stating
alleging
broaching
citing
exhibiting
exhorting
expressing
imparting
offering
pitching
propounding
raising
submitting
adducing
delivering
exposing
laying out
mooting
mounting
plugging
prescribing
setting forth
suggesting
volunteering
aggrandizing
ballyhooing
beating the drum for
bouncing
coming up with
exalting
hyping
laying forward
making a pitch for
made known
offering as a suggestion
publishing
puffing
putting on the map
putting up
serving
throwing out
throwing spotlight on
thumping the tub for
crying up
postulating
conveying
tendering
giving
conjecturing
essaying
adverting
intimating
saying
opining
speculating
daring to say
evoking
positing
lodging
trotting out
ventilating
bringing up
venturing
tabling
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give greater praise than due
overrating
overestimating
overvaluing
glorifying
overprizing
overselling
magnifying
overpraising
assessing too highly
exaggerating
exceeding
overassessing
overesteeming
overreckoning
rating too highly
thinking
exaggerating the worth of
blowing up
praising too highly
prizing too highly
attaching too much importance to
exaggerating the merits of
making too much of something
thinking too highly of
thinking too much of
expecting too much of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to reinforce the strength or sturdiness of
making stronger
strengthening
reinforcing
fortifying
supporting
hardening
buttressing
bracing
toughening
shoring up
bolstering
stiffening
inuring
propping
indurating
steeling
consolidating
shoring
cementing
bulwarking
backing up
beefing up
firming up
securing
underpinning
upholding
sustaining
girding
stabilizing
US
making stable
toughening up
substantiating
stabilising
UK
carrying
bearing
staying
undergirding
maintaining
augmenting
defending
confirming
bolstering up
buoying up
jacking up
holding up
propping up
seasoning
tempering
rigidifying
thickening
coarsening
annealing
heightening
tightening
boosting
intensifying
enhancing
magnifying
increasing
accentuating
amplifying
amping up
harshening
scaling up
making stricter
redoubling
deepening
stepping up
escalating
cranking up
upping
adding force to
re-enforcing
making more stringent
making more severe
tightening up
underpropping
making more rigorous
making more rigid
case-hardening
pillaring
making resilient
giving strength to
reaffirming
establishing
assuring
solidifying
reasserting
reiterating
restating
fueling
US
fuelling
renewing
restoring
making secure
corroborating
justifying
empowering
fixing
enlarging
emboldening
burgeoning
authenticating
nurturing
cultivating
inspiriting
fostering
flourishing
promoting
advancing
developing
endorsing
raising
settling
making firm
lending more weight to
giving weight to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to gain weight, especially muscle
bulking up
gaining muscle
gaining weight
padding out
increasing size
making gains
bigging up
training
working out
building muscle
doing weights
going to the gym
pumping iron
exercising
Verb
▲
Present participle for give a false or misleading account of the nature of
misrepresenting
distorting
garbling
misstating
perverting
belying
falsifying
misinterpreting
warping
disguising
fudging
misreporting
twisting
misquoting
bending
coloring
US
colouring
UK
cooking
misrelating
parodying
slanting
straining
concealing
manipulating
travestying
adulterating
angling
bearding
biasing
US
biassing
UK
blarneying
cheesing
cloaking
conning
confusing
dressing
embellishing
embroidering
equivocating
exaggerating
lying
mangling
masking
miscoloring
overdrawing
overstating
paltering
pirating
prevaricating
promoting
puffing
skewing
snowing
stretching
quoting out of context
taking out of context
blowing smoke
covering up
giving a false account of
giving a false idea of
passing off
putting a spin on
trumping up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to repair or renovate so as to return something to its original condition
rebuilding
restoring
reconstructing
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
renovating
refashioning
revamping
remaking
reassembling
reconditioning
rehabbing
building
fixing
patching
reconstituting
recreating
reerecting
reestablishing
reforming
remanufacturing
repairing
restructuring
doing up
touching up
overhauling
refurbishing
modernizing
US
reworking
reorganizing
US
rehabilitating
redoing
doctoring
recasting
regenerating
rejuvenating
reorienting
reproducing
reshuffling
replacing
retooling
remolding
US
remoulding
UK
reorganising
UK
modernising
UK
making over
fixing up
re-establishing
re-forming
breathing new life into
piecing together
mending
renewing
refitting
redeveloping
updating
revitalizing
US
improving
refreshing
servicing
revitalising
UK
redesigning
redecorating
bringing up to date
reviving
revivifying
sprucing
upgrading
retreading
putting back together
vamping up
patching up
reinventing
bringing up to code
adjusting
rectifying
revising
reanimating
recovering
retouching
resuscitating
refurnishing
sprucing up
reinstating
amending
re-creating
changing
restituting
tarting up
modifying
setting right
reinvigorating
resurrecting
redevising
fettling
furbishing
reshaping
face-lifting
giving something a facelift
brightening up
setting to rights
rekindling
reawakening
recharging
freshening
refreshening
reinforcing
correcting
adapting
emending
remastering
redeeming
regulating
refabricating
tuning
seeing to
gussying up
making good
putting right
altering
restoring to working order
freshening up
tuning up
bringing back
making as good as new
straightening out
getting into shape
fiddling with
giving a new look to
transforming
gentrifying
restyling
reformatting
establishing again
uplifting
developing
maintaining
doing
kick-starting
vamping
rewaking
rewakening
creating again
invigorating
going over
sorting
exhilarating
envigorating
producing again
rescuing
salvaging
salvageing
debugging
getting something working
cleaning up
putting to rights
bringing into the twenty-first century
making whole
putting in order
giving a shot in the arm to
giving a face-lift
changing the format
covering
repeating
reinstalling
copying
rearranging
tailoring
restating
reopening
rewiring
converting
varying
settling
replenishing
resuming
reaffirming
realigning
reequipping
strengthening
putting back
getting working again
fine tuning
giving facelift
shaking up
making fit for use
reconfiguring
tidying
grooming
building again
making again
emendating
giving a facelift to
reclaiming
smartening up
righting
putting back into its original condition
tidying up
beautifying
bucking up
pepping up
curing
remedying
healing
rebranding
redrafting
rewriting
redrawing
reenforcing
returning to a former state
returning to a former position
putting some spark into
adding some zest to
making younger
restoring vitality to
putting new life into
putting new heart into
redressing
pimping out
pimping up
giving new life to
giving face lift to
making young again
making someone feel young again
making smarter
making tidy
neatening
smartening
dolling up
jazzing up
making neater
clouting
botching
conditioning
tinkering
setting up
inspiriting
glueing
UK
gluing
US
readying
cobbling
changing radically
producing
restarting
stimulating
doctoring up
working on
perking up
making well
raising from the dead
giving a shot in the arm
cleansing
reactivating
retrieving
cleaning
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for press for political action
lobbying
influencing
persuading
petitioning
pressing
pressuring
pushing
urging
campaigning
soliciting
swaying
appealing
importuning
promoting
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
advancing
affecting
altering
appealing to
billing
boosting
calling on
changing
drumming
furthering
hyping
inducing
modifying
pitching
plugging
politicking
procuring
requesting
seeking to influence
selling
soft-selling
soft-soaping
splashing
spotting
sweet-talking
thumping
trying to persuade
applying pressure
campaigning for
high pressuring
selling one on
swaying opinion
bringing pressure to bear on
exerting influence
pressing your case
pulling strings
putting pressure on
soliciting votes
trying to influence
making a pitch for
bringing pressure to bear
Verb
▲
Present participle for to do something repeatedly so as to become skilled
practising
UK
practicing
US
rehearsing
exercising
studying
honing
sharpening
training
working
attempting
iterating
polishing
repeating
trying
drilling
habituating
preparing
reciting
running over
working at
becoming seasoned
doing again
dress rehearsing
going over
going through
running through
trying out
tuning up
walking through
warming up
working out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to publicly recommend or support
advocating
championing
supporting
recommending
advising
endorsing
favoring
US
favouring
UK
backing
prescribing
promoting
upholding
urging
commending
suggesting
encouraging
proposing
defending
espousing
justifying
countenancing
indorsing
patronising
UK
patronizing
US
pushing
sanctioning
advancing
furthering
plugging
touting
blessing
bolstering
boosting
sponsoring
vindicating
approving of
arguing for
pressing for
speaking for
subscribing to
vouching for
lobbying for
pleading for
plumping for
plunking for
rooting for
siding with
stumping for
campaigning for
going for
going to bat for
going with
standing up for
bracing up
campaigning on behalf of
holding with
running interference for
saying so
spreading around
getting on bandwagon
giving a leg up
giving a lift
holding a brief for
riding shotgun
Noun
▲
The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged
enlargement
expansion
growth
extension
amplification
augmentation
magnification
swelling
intensification
multiplication
development
dilatation
distension
elongation
increase
addition
broadening
diffusion
expanse
inflation
spread
stretching
unfolding
widening
ballooning
deepening
fattening
lengthening
thickening
topping up
unfurling
blowing up
blow-up
increase in size
intumescence
tumefaction
waxing
aggrandisement
UK
aggrandizement
US
elaboration
filling out
opening out
puffing up
swell
blow up
rise
escalation
boost
buildup
increment
accretion
proliferation
accrual
accumulation
gain
hike
upsurge
uptick
upturn
enhancement
heightening
step up
raise
mushrooming
accession
build-up
spike
uptrend
advancement
surge
advance
appreciation
snowballing
dilation
upping
upgrade
burgeoning
explosion
supplement
addendum
distention
more
plus
jump
bump
reinforcement
run-up
upswing
buildout
boosting
acceleration
boom
cumulation
accumulating
collection
elevation
creep
strengthening
growing
crescendo
upgrading
gathering
amassment
amassing
stockpile
amelioration
compounding
promotion
store
improvement
augmenting
spiralling
UK
supplementing
exacerbation
leap
bulge
exaggeration
spreading
upgrowth
raising
refinement
evolution
fleshing out
up
breakthrough
maximization
US
assemblage
furtherance
progression
collecting
betterment
enrichment
quadrupling
doubling
tripling
progress
spiraling
US
top-up
embellishment
climb
maximisation
UK
avalanche
piling up
stacking up
spreading out
opening
aggravation
adjunct
worsening
developing
stepping-up
expatiation
ascent
accruement
augment
aggrandization
explanation
padding
formation
accrument
profit
bloating
deposition
sharpening
intensifying
concentration
agglomeration
logjam
backlog
lift
high
upward turn
bounce
prolongation
diversification
ramp up
rounding out
increasing
aggregation
evolvement
maturation
stepping up
gradual growth
increasement
pretension
expanding
annexation
pooling
pileup
assembly
enlarging
stockpiling
stack
advertising
mass
load
hype
publicity
puff
plug
heap
globalisation
UK
globalization
US
pretentiousness
prolonging
affectation
assembling
hoarding
reserve
annex
US
pretence
UK
grandiosity
pretense
US
affectedness
rocketing
optimization
US
prosperity
puffiness
flowering
annexe
UK
merger
drawing out
scaling up
appendix
access
incorporation
continuation
complement
stretching out
price rises
price increases
blooming
stocking up
success
correction
optimisation
UK
dramatic increase
rapid increase
sudden increase
shooting up
rectification
large increase
amendment
melioration
blossoming
headway
rally
forwarding
rectifying
face-lift
transmission
reformation
upbeat
cultivation
reinforcing
elaborating
dissemination
civilisation
UK
meliorism
preferment
renovation
turnaround
change
civilization
US
revision
change for the better
kaizen
reclamation
supplementation
emergence
flourishing
metamorphosis
incubation
perfection
ongoing
unraveling
US
adding to
suffusion
propagation
dispersal
unravelling
UK
profusion
coverage
division
distribution
dispersion
transfusion
compass
ramification
radiation
beefing up
snowball effect
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object
assembly
construction
manufacture
erection
fabrication
joining
building
connecting
putting together
connection
setting up
adjustment
attachment
collection
compilation
manufacturing
modelling
UK
modeling
US
moulding
UK
molding
US
shaping
welding
fitting together
piecing together
coupling
junction
joint
join
jointure
juncture
linking
fastening
link
combination
union
merging
combining
consolidation
unification
merger
seam
network
tie
conjunction
portal
mapping
partnerhip
fixture
port
conjointment
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state of being educated or enlightened
edification
teaching
education
instruction
enlightenment
tuition
schooling
tutoring
training
tutelage
information
coaching
cultivation
improvement
pedagogy
inculcation
learning
andragogy
guidance
knowledge
indoctrination
development
illumination
nurture
elevation
elucidation
uplifting
bettering
betterment
enhancement
irradiation
erudition
apprenticeship
study
literacy
discipline
refinement
science
reading
direction
civilization
US
civilisation
UK
scholarship
culture
pedagogics
understanding
insight
breeding
background
book learning
awareness
explanation
clarification
lessons
preparation
drilling
catechism
learnedness
proselytism
finish
brainwashing
rearing
propagandism
advancement
comprehension
wisdom
epiphany
light
an aha moment
revelation
book-learning
e-learning
research
studying
swotting
enrichment
discovery
perception
academic work
formal education
uplift
grounding
classes
tutorials
priming
rules
lectures
drill
lesson
progress
chalk talk
sophistication
couth
polish
accomplishment
sense
civility
acculturation
evolution
human development
intelligence
awakening
divination
facts
evidence
details
intuition
discernment
social well-being
resolution
proof
apprehension
clues
data
truth
thought
exposition
specifics
unravelment
info
explication
illustration
clearing up
orientation
practice
briefing
upbringing
disciplining
induction
tutorial
care
session
supervision
directions
seminar
readying
cognition
instructions
preamble
crash course
grooming
guiding
matriculation
tutorship
schoolwork
charge
expenditure
price
fee
foundation
basis
exercise
programming
persuasion
sharpening
proselytization
propaganda
guardianship
wing
custody
protection
seasoning
fostering
tending
raising
mind-control
tune-up
expert hand
boot camp
intensive training
control
regulation
lore
authority
bringing up
familiarity
accomplishments
letters
attainments
class
strictness
regimen
order
intellect
expertise
know-how
grasp
academic study
intellectual attainment
skill
philosophy
academic achievement
ability
orderliness
lecture
period
knowingness
cognizance
conversance
acquaintance
routine
rundown
subject
judgement
UK
judgment
US
course
rules of conduct
domestication
intimacy
ken
acquaintanceship
grip
guidelines
lear
discussion
update
initiation
consultation
updating
information taught
period of coaching
period of tutoring
period of schooling
period of instruction
period of teaching
background meeting
more ❯
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▲
An act of gathering or accumulating things or items
gathering
stockpile
accumulation
collecting
addition
accumulating
amassing
amassment
assembly
gain
mushrooming
stockpiling
assembling
hoarding
acquisition
buildup
compilation
expansion
gaining
garnering
obtaining
reaping
roundup
attainment
harvesting
heaping
piling
procuring
growth
levying
gradual growth
accretion
build-up
pileup
collection
assemblage
cumulation
accrual
increase
augmentation
amplification
enlargement
swelling
reinforcement
lodgement
US
cumulus
lodgment
UK
deposit
supplement
boosting
supplementing
topping up
boost
hike
upgrowth
upsurge
appreciation
aggregation
increasing
rise
expanding
annexation
spike
upturn
magnification
surge
upswing
enlarging
pooling
accession
inflation
elevation
proliferation
augmenting
aggrandizement
US
escalation
upping
enhancement
raise
development
uptick
boom
increment
swell
snowballing
reserve
annex
US
more
explosion
uptrend
jump
multiplication
store
aggrandisement
UK
flowering
annexe
UK
stacking up
piling up
step up
run-up
stocking up
addendum
plus
bump
growing
heightening
formation
deposition
agglomeration
increasement
spread
extension
intensification
burgeoning
maximization
US
optimization
US
breakthrough
upgrade
quadrupling
doubling
lengthening
tripling
creep
distention
distension
merger
exaggeration
appendix
advancement
access
incorporation
complement
elaboration
continuation
compilement
broadening
waxing
crescendo
dilation
avalanche
top-up
maximisation
UK
bulge
optimisation
UK
compiling
large increase
composing
collation
aggregating
consolidating
combining
collocating
garner
drawing together
bringing together
more ❯
Noun
▲
The reinforcing or bolstering something, or the amount of something
strengthening
reinforcement
bolstering
buttressing
fortification
defence
UK
defense
US
support
underpinning
shoring up
augmenting
supplementing
boosting
stiffening
consolidation
beefing up
bracing
protecting
securing
toughening
protection
reinforcing
embattlement
supporting
propping up
holding up
Noun
▲
A (typically sudden) spurt or build-up of something in great quantities
bubble
surge
flood
rush
wave
groundswell
rise
spate
upsurge
charge
deluge
flurry
flush
onrush
outburst
spurt
torrent
uprising
upswing
upwelling
burst
current
epidemic
escalation
flow
gush
influx
onslaught
outbreak
patch
rash
run
spell
stream
sweep
swell
tide
bout
eruption
explosion
fit
frenzy
spree
welling up
build-up
flare-up
storm
outpouring
barrage
blaze
volley
flash
avalanche
bombardment
flare
shower
cascade
ebullition
succession
string
spasm
gust
boutade
paroxysm
gale
series
flux
flutter
hail
plague
blast
blitz
salvo
attack
battery
inundation
access
flicker
cannonade
blitzkrieg
fusillade
breakout
efflux
bursting
broadside
blow-up
chain
course
outflow
inrush
heave
spill
push
recrudescence
blow
blowup
detonation
drumfire
dash
onset
rain
effusion
agony
stab
dart
sally
drumbeat
discharge
sudden appearance
sortie
occurrence
break
gushing
roar
pour
river
downpour
flood tide
sequence
manifestation
squall
heavy sea
tempest
feeling
paddy
large amount
exodus
vibration
start
billow
draught
UK
pandemic
inflammation
profusion
draft
US
uprush
splash
touch
vomiting
train
assault
outpour
advance
show
offensive
cluster
advancement
welter
crash
crack
breaking
effervescence
sundering
thunder
convulsion
commotion
rending
brawl
irruption
fury
disorder
disruption
tumult
brief display
sudden show
sudden display
sudden exhibition
brief exhibition
march
passage
progression
descent
foray
thrust
raid
incursion
procession
progress
process
din
agitation
violence
aggression
strife
headway
furtherance
stampede
craze
increase
growth
upturn
contagion
mushrooming
spread
going
trend
direction
drift
outflowing
splurt
upheaval
rapture
tendency
overflow
movement
overflowing
overrunning
monsoon
wind
leaning
turn
tenor
swing
ebb
undercurrent
race
drag
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