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snowball
verb as in increase
Strong matches
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggravate
- amplify
- annex
- augment
- boost
- broaden
- build
- burgeon
- deepen
- develop
- dilate
- distend
- double
- enhance
- enlarge
- exaggerate
- expand
- extend
- further
- grow
- inflate
- lengthen
- magnify
- mount
- pad
- progress
- prolong
- protract
- pullulate
- raise
- redouble
- reinforce
- rise
- sharpen
- soar
- spread
- strengthen
- supplement
- swarm
- teem
- thicken
- triple
- upsurge
- wax
Example Sentences
Blumberg elaborated that he fears that vaccine misinformation can snowball into a distrust for other routine care in early childhood, too.
“Once you get going,” Vetro says, “it just snowballs. Now I don’t work with ‘regular’ people at all.”
After agreeing to take the first package, he describes a “snowball effect”.
But it "snowballed" and he then visited another 120 in France, followed by Belgium, Italy and Norway.
However, as doubt surrounding her abilities snowballed, competition organisers said last Sunday that Jiang had violated competition rules in the preliminary round, by receiving help from her teacher, who was also a contestant himself.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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