To expedite.
To develop.
To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
To improve; to become better or more complete.
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
To slouch or droop.
To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
To collapse heavily or helplessly.
To lump; to throw together messily.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
A boggy place.
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.