mounting

Examples

• All

• Not surprisingly, customs, immigration, and other officials are finding themselves under mounting pressure to improve the "facilitation" of transborder flows.

  Academic text (2000)

• As the concert began, there was a mounting excitement among the audience.

• There is mounting evidence, however, that current methods of systems engineering are reaching their limits.

  Academic text (2011)

• As the day approached, Giselle had felt her panic mounting.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Only this week I learned a veteran in my constituency, James Scott, took his own life as a result of his struggle with mounting financial pressures.

• Bhindranwale felt strongly that the Sikh religion was under mounting pressure.

  Academic text (1996)

• Morbidity and infant mortality rose because of poor nutrition and mounting air and water pollution.

  Academic text (1991)

• Thus, there is mounting evidence that sympathetic preschoolers and elementary school children are relatively well-regulated.

  Academic text (1998)

• Today, however, there is mounting and frightening evidence that buried heads in the sand cannot solve the enormous fiscal problems Medicare faces.

  Academic text (2011)

• The athlete felt a mounting pressure to perform well in the upcoming competition.

Synonyms

C

climb

vsmounting

100 1.6

An act of moving up, for example on a hill or to a higher job

focuses on the event of rising rather than the action itself

R

raising

vsmounting

32 2.3

The action of moving something to a higher place or level

is the broader event of rising rather than the deliberate act of lifting

A

ascent

vsmounting

26 4.2

To move upward, either by climbing or by reaching a higher position

is the broad event of rising in level, not just the act

A

ascension

vsmounting

18 7.5

A movement upwards to a higher position, for example climbing or getting a promotion at work

is the neutral process of rising without ceremonial connotations

E

elevation

vsmounting

12 4.1

Raising someone to a higher job or rank

is the general process of rise that includes physical and abstract cases

C

climbing

vsmounting

4 2.0

Rising to a higher level, for example a mountain or the temperature

is the general event or process of rising to a higher level

H

heightening

vsmounting

1 4.6

An increase in how strong or serious something becomes

is the general rising of level, not only increases in intensity

Antonyms

D

to drop

∞ 1.0

To let something fall suddenly or by accident

D

to decline

3 3.4

To slope downward toward a lower level

How High

surge

132 4.2

escalation

65 5.7

mounting

4 4.1

increase

524 1.0

uptick

17 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology