Crossword clues for advancing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advance \Ad*vance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Advancing(#).] [OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer, fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See Avaunt.]
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]
They . . . advanced their eyelids.
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To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
--Esther iii. 1. 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.
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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.
--Pope. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
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.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
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To extol; to laud. [Obs.]
Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.
--Spenser.Syn: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.
Wiktionary
n. The act of proceeding forward; an advance. vb. (present participle of advance English)
WordNet
adj. moving ahead or toward the front; "advancing armies" [ant: retreating]
moving forward [syn: forward, forward-moving]
Usage examples of "advancing".
On the left side of this wood--that is, the left side to the advancing troops--there stretched a long nullah or hollow, which ran perpendicularly to the hill, and served rather as a conductor of bullets than as a cover.
In front of the advancing British there lay a rolling hill, topped by a further one.
The British batteries turned their attention away from them, and began to search the ridge with shrapnel and prepare the way for the advancing infantry.
The hillside, which had appeared to be one slope, was really a succession of undulations, so that the advancing infantry alternately dipped into shelter and emerged into a hail of bullets.
French, with his cavalry, pushed out feelers, and coasted along the edge of the advancing host.
In the meantime we may follow the unhappy fortunes of the small column which had, as already described, been sent out by Sir George White in order, if possible, to prevent the junction of the two Boer armies, and at the same time to threaten the right wing of the main force, which was advancing from the direction of Dundee, Sir George White throughout the campaign consistently displayed one quality which is a charming one in an individual, but may be dangerous in a commander.
Why they should be still advancing in that dense clump we do not now know, nor can we surmise what thoughts were passing through the mind of the gallant and experienced chieftain who walked beside them.
The other British force which faced the Boers who were advancing through Stormberg was commanded by General Gatacre, a man who bore a high reputation for fearlessness and tireless energy, though he had been criticised, notably during the Soudan campaign, for having called upon his men for undue and unnecessary exertion.
Why were the men in quarter column when advancing against an unseen foe?
With a loss of some two hundred men the leading regiments succeeded in reaching Colenso, and the West Surrey, advancing by rushes of fifty yards at a time, had established itself in the station, but a catastrophe had occurred at an earlier hour to the artillery which was supporting it which rendered all further advance impossible.
The train steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset.
During this action Lyttelton had held the Boers in their trenches opposite to him by advancing to within 1500 yards of them, but the attack was not pushed further.
Once a handful of men, tormented beyond endurance, sprang up as a sign that they had had enough, but Thorneycroft, a man of huge physique, rushed forward to the advancing Boers.
And now the force had a straight run in before it, for it had outpaced any further force of Boers which may have been advancing from the direction of Magersfontein.
Wepener, advancing through Rouxville, but going slowly for fear of scaring the Boers away before they were sufficiently compromised.