progressing
- 1Present participle and gerund of progress.
The illness was progressing more slowly than the doctors first feared.
Progressing steadily through the curriculum, the class finished the term early.
Note
The -ing form does three jobs. After be it builds the progressive (the talks are progressing). At the head of a clause it works as a modifier, and as a gerund it names the activity itself. Most uses are intransitive, since things progress on their own. The transitive meaning, to expedite, also appears here: progressing an application means pushing it forward, not watching it advance.
progressing is a form of progress
progress, verb: To go forward or move on, from one place, step or stage to the next, as when a queue moves along or a team goes through to the next round. Full entry
- Forms
- progressprogresses he/she/itprogressing -ing formprogressed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- progress → progressing: add -ing
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