progress
verb/prəˈɡres/
/prəˈɡres/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they progress | /prəˈɡres/ /prəˈɡres/ |
| he / she / it progresses | /prəˈɡresɪz/ /prəˈɡresɪz/ |
| past simple progressed | /prəˈɡrest/ /prəˈɡrest/ |
| past participle progressed | /prəˈɡrest/ /prəˈɡrest/ |
| -ing form progressing | /prəˈɡresɪŋ/ /prəˈɡresɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to improve or develop over a period of time; to make progress synonym advance
- The course allows students to progress at their own speed.
- Work on the new road is progressing slowly.
- Things are progressing well.
- progress in something to progress rapidly in your career
- progress with something They are anxious to progress with the plan.
- progress to something She started off playing the recorder and then progressed to the clarinet.
- progress from something to something He soon progressed from the basics to more difficult work.
Extra ExamplesTopics Successb2- He felt he still needed to progress further in his learning.
- The talks are progressing very well.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- nicely
- satisfactorily
- smoothly
- …
- fail to
- beyond
- from
- through
- …
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (formal) to move forward
- The line of traffic progressed slowly through the town.
- (figurative) Cases can take months to progress through the courts.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- nicely
- satisfactorily
- smoothly
- …
- fail to
- beyond
- from
- through
- …
- [intransitive] to go forward in time synonym go on (4)
- The weather became colder as the day progressed.
- The visiting team's confidence increased as the game progressed.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun): from Latin progressus ‘an advance’, from the verb progredi, from pro- ‘forward’ + gradi ‘to walk’. The verb became obsolete in British English use at the end of the 17th cent. and was readopted from American English in the early 19th cent.
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