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advancing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ədˈvɑːnsɪŋ//
  • United States//ədˈvænsɪŋ//

The act of proceeding forward; an advance.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of advancepresent participle and gerund of advance

    […] and although my invitation extended to both runs, advancing years dictated that 3 hr. 20 min. on the footplate was more than adequate, so that I chose the northbound run only; […]

    For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of proceeding forward; an advance.

    […] who feels, not as even the kindest and the holiest friend on earth can feel towards our patient endurance, our shortcomings, or our slow advancings […]

Forms

plural
advancings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).