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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | change, enlargement, evolvement, expansion, flowering, growth, increase, maturation, natural process, progression, transformation, unfolding, working out |
| Antonyms: | blockage, decrease, halt, stoppage |
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| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, chrysalis, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, ontogenesis, ontogeny, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread, spreading, unfolding, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | formation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composition, establishment |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, architecture, arrangement, compilation, configuration, constitution, construction, creation, crystallization, deposit, design, development, dispersal, disposition, embodiment, evolution, fabrication, figure, forming, generation, genesis, grouping, induction, makeup, manufacture, order, organization, pattern, production, rank, structure, synthesis |
| Main Entry: | gestation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of early development |
| Synonyms: | evolution, fecundation, gravidity, growth, incubation, maturation, pregnancy, reproduction, ripening |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening |
| Antonyms: | abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | maneuver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military practice, operation |
| Synonyms: | battle, deployment, drill, evolution, exercise, measure, movement, parade, plan, procedure, proceeding, stratagem, tactics, war games |
| Main Entry: | metamorphosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversion, transformation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, transfiguration, transfigurement, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation |
| Antonyms: | stagnation |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
| Synonyms: | act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
| Antonyms: | cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |
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