increasing

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Plain form
increase

Third-person singular
increases

Past tense
increased

Past participle
increased

Present participle
increasing

Increasing is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. The present participle of increase.
    His money is increasing because he makes good business deals.
    He is worried about his increasing debt: it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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