PAST PROGRESSIVE TENSE Synonyms

• remaining in force or being carried on without letup

• persisting for a long time

• continuing in time or space without interruption

• of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

• the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration

• relating to or suitable for growth

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

• the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action

• marked by iteration

• currently happening

• relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit

• favoring or promoting progress

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

• advancing in severity

• relatively long in duration; tediously protracted

• drawn out or made longer spatially

• a developmental process

• work out

• undergo development or evolution

• gain through experience

• a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past