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verb

Advance v. t. (past & past part. advanced; pres. part. advancing)

1.

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

2.

To raise; to elevate. (Archaic) "They... advanced their eyelids."

3.

To raise to a higher rank; to promote. "Ahasueres... advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes."

4.

To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

5.

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. "Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own."

6.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

7.

To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

8.

To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

9.

To extol; to laud. (Obs.) "Greatly advancing his gay chivalry."

Synonyms: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.

Advance v. i.

1.

To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

2.

To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

3.

To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. "Advanced to a level with ancient peers."

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Etymology of 'Advancing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Advancing" Quotes from Famous Books

... and discovering along the long level road which they had traversed a cloud of dust advancing, with one or two of the headmost troopers riding furiously in front of it, Quentin addressed his companion: "Dearest Isabelle, I have no weapon left save my sword, but since I cannot fight for you, I will fly with you. Could we gain yonder wood that is before us ere they ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... and dead lull came with an ominous meaning, and then the loud hissing of rain could be heard advancing to us in the dark till it poured on the yawl in sheets of water, and the mere dripping from the peak of my sou'wester ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... utterly uncongenial and unpalatable to his habits and ideas. But now he had a child,—a legitimate child, successor to his name, his wealth; a first-born child,—the only one ever sprung from him, the prop and hope of advancing years! On this child he doted with all that paternal passion which the hardest and coldest men often feel the most for their own flesh and blood—for fatherly love is sometimes but a transfer of self-love from one ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book X • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... imprisonment for life would recompense you even for the loss of her grace's arm. And five hundred pounds is such a sum to have to pay—merely for a wife! Why not, therefore, act on Mr. Dacre's suggestion? Here comes the constable." The constable referred to was advancing toward them—he was not a dozen yards away. "Let me beckon to him—I will with pleasure." He took out his watch—a gold chronograph repeater. "There are scarcely ten minutes left during which it will be possible for me to ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... amusing enough for mere mortals," he shrugged, a scarcely perceptible snub in his tone. Mary was silent. They waited for several minutes. At last instinct rather than hearing made them turn to see a figure advancing down ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

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