more and more
Adverb
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Adverb
- (degree) Progressively more.
- Oil is getting more and more expensive.
- He started calling more and more frequently.
- 1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace,
- What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.
- (manner) In a manner that progressively increases.
- The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.
- 1782, Robert Burns, John Barleycorn,
- His colour sicken'd more and more,
- He faded into age;
- And then his enemies began
- To show their deadly rage.
- (modal) Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
- More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.
- 1864 September, The Cadmean Madness in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14,
- More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.
- French: de plus en plus
- German: immer (+ comparative)
- Italian: viepiù
- Portuguese: cada vez mais
- Russian: бо́льше и бо́льше
- Spanish: cada vez más
- Italian: viepiù
- Portuguese: cada vez mais
- Portuguese: cada vez mais
- Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
- There are more and more people who keep pets these days.
- German: immer mehr
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