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transferred. Of a gale or storm: That increases gradually in violence, or in its effects. Sometimes hyphenated. Also figurative.
Progressive; increasing, accumulating. Obsolete.
the action or pastime of making and throwing snowballs; also figurative and adj.
Tending to escalate or increase by successive stages, esp. of the development of nuclear weapons; characteristic of or conducive to escalation.