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make headway
Overview of verb make-headway
The verb make headway has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground -- (obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference")
Antonyms of verb make-headway
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb make-headway
1 sense of make headway
Sense 1
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb make-headway
1 sense of make headway
Sense 1
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
=> steal
=> score, hit, tally, rack up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb make-headway
1 sense of make headway
Sense 1
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
'Cause To' of verb make-headway
Derived Forms of verb make-headway
Domain of verb make-headway
Domain Terms of verb make-headway
Familiarity of verb make-headway
make headway used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb make-headway
1 sense of make headway
Sense 1
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb make-headway
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb make-headway
Sense 1
gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
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