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Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:09:53 2018 No.10522208 [Reply] [Original]

What's the for word for something which slowly grows or increases over time please?

E.g. the protests, which "X" over time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:10:49 2018 No.10522211 >>10522208 Crevice?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:15:53 2018 No.10522220 >the protests, which exacerbated over time. >the protests, which worsened over time. >the protests, which compounded over time. >the protests, which intensified over time. >the protests, which escalated over time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:19:37 2018 No.10522228 waxed

>>	Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Thu Jan 11 07:20:56 2018 No.10522233 >>10522208 what increased? the frequency? the scale? the intensity? increased is way too broad

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:49:16 2018 No.10522313 >>10522208 exponentially

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:51:08 2018 No.10522320 File: 6 KB, 512x288, IMG_0383.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10522313

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 13:58:41 2018 No.10523510 Accumulate

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 14:00:47 2018 No.10523521 Engorged

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 14:00:58 2018 No.10523522 >>10522208 logarithmically increased.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 14:01:05 2018 No.10523523 >>10522313 Exponentially actually means exponential, which has a specific definition (although it is often misused by layman). Exponential growth is hardly slow.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 14:57:38 2018 No.10523745 >>10522208 "slowly grew".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:04:31 2018 No.10523767 >>10522208 Flourished

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:05:35 2018 No.10523769 augmented, fermented, burgeoned, accumulated,

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:06:38 2018 No.10523772 ant-hilled

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:07:50 2018 No.10523777 >>10522208 Accrued

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:09:01 2018 No.10523783 Mounted Grew Proliferated Multiplied Got worse

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:10:08 2018 No.10523787 >>10522208 In your context of protest, I would use "heated up"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:10:37 2018 No.10523791 metastasize

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 15:11:43 2018 No.10523796 >>10522208 tumesced :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 18:12:22 2018 No.10524648 >>10523522 >>10522313 Both of these mean something that grows incredibly fast

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 18:51:08 2018 No.10524804 File: 6 KB, 419x249, 10687814.jpg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 18:57:29 2018 No.10524835 >>10522208 Embiggened

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 18:59:44 2018 No.10524841 >>10522208 Incremental

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 19:00:00 2018 No.10524843 >>10524835 Embuggered

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 19:02:18 2018 No.10524853 >>10523522 Logirithmic growth can be incredibly fast if it describes a relationship to a limiting factor

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 19:03:20 2018 No.10524855 >>10524841 This is the answer by the way

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 19:24:56 2018 No.10524941 non-linear?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 19:50:29 2018 No.10525042 >>10522208 >Gradually grew

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 23:42:45 2018 No.10525887 GERMINATED

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 04:41:21 2018 No.10526547 >>10523523 it can be slow. interest is an exponential function, but it grows very slowly for most people. depends on what you mean by slow though

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 04:42:25 2018 No.10526551 File: 21 KB, 600x647, microfeels.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10524648

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 08:28:20 2018 No.10526931 Aroused

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 11:39:45 2018 No.10527405 Augments? Expands?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 11:41:00 2018 No.10527408 Swells?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 11:47:20 2018 No.10527430 progressed in an arithmetic series

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 11:48:47 2018 No.10527436 >>10522208 Do what Hemingway would do and simply write, "The protests, which slowly grew over time."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 16:05:31 2018 No.10528495 >>10522208 grew

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 16:07:09 2018 No.10528502 >>10522208 Remember Orwell. > slowly grows is the best phrase to use.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 16:11:33 2018 No.10528516 the pedagogue which fermented the seed which brooded in mind of the swarm

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 16:12:56 2018 No.10528524 >>10522208 Snowballed /thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 12 16:15:03 2018 No.10528534 >>10528524 > to snowball is not 'slowly'.

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