furthering

VERB

advance, lend support

Synonyms

STRONGEST

encourage expedite facilitate hasten help promote speed

STRONG

aid assist ballyhoo champion contribute engender forward foster generate patronize plug propagate push serve succor

WEAK

back up bail out give a boost to go with lend a hand open doors take care of work for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

block check delay halt hinder hurt slow stop

STRONG

conceal destroy discourage hide ignore impede kill neglect oppose take withhold

WEAK

cease curtail frustrate obstruct prevent protest

Example Sentences

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Furthering their investigations, they designed an ASO to keep hnRNPU from splicing out exon 5.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

Furthering that, "Some of those same holdouts helped to oust him just nine months later."

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2023

The proposed requirement is designed to streamline fair housing analysis requirements enacted under the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule to expand the anti-segregation efforts of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Furthering the problem is that by the time most patients with autoimmune diseases seek treatment, a lot of damage is already done.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2021

SECONDLY, there is eager Furthering of the Husbandries, the Commerces, Practical Arts,—especially at present, that of Foreign Commerce, and Shipping from the Port of Embden.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas