| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The act of increasing or rising: aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, increase, jump, multiplication, proliferation, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn. See INCREASE. 2. The amount by which something is increased: advance, boost, increase, increment, jump, raise, rise. See INCREASE. | | VERB: | 1. To travel about or journey on foot: backpack, march1, peregrinate, traipse, tramp, trek. See MOVE. 2. To increase in amount: boost, jack (up), jump, raise, up. See INCREASE.
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