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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Advancing in amount or intensity
Example:
she became increasingly depressed
Synonyms:
increasingly; more and more; progressively
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Context examples:
The light became more and more oppressive to me, and the heat wearying me as I walked, I sought a place where I could receive shade.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But climate change has brought warmer and longer summers throughout the Arctic, and permafrost soils are thawing more and more.
(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)
This means users need more and more drug to have the same effect.
(Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Mrs. Collins welcomed her friend with the liveliest pleasure, and Elizabeth was more and more satisfied with coming when she found herself so affectionately received.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Presently she began to fetch more and more to the westward, so that I thought they had sighted me and were going about in chase.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As the climate continues to warm, more and more ice shelves may become susceptible to flex, fracture and break up over the coming century.
(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This implies that the tumour will be accumulating more and more potentially damaging mutations over time, making it less and less fit to its environment.
(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)
And through it all the weariness was asserting itself more and more.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sleep is important for biological recovery and takes around a third of our lifetime, but in modern society more and more people complain of insomnia.
(Insomnia: Heart Attack, Stroke Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Life could have originated in the same way it did on Earth - with self-replicating molecules becoming more and more complex while continuing to reproduce.
(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
