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7. improve, better, perfect, upgrade, amend, ameliorate, meliorate; enhance, enrich, fatten, strengthen; add to, increase, augment, alter, change; enlarge, swell, extend, expand, spread; grow, develop, mature, maturate, ripen, grow up.
8. recuperate, get or become better, come around, recover, revive, turn the corner, make a turn for the better; convalesce, become stronger, become healthier.

progression, n. 1. movement forward, onward movement, headway; gaining ground, pushing forward, forging ahead; moving along, going forward, advancement, advance; pressing on, pushing ahead, perseverance; continuance, continuation; inching ahead, edging along; furtherance, upward movement, rise, ascension, elevation; ascent, climb, mounting, scaling.
2. succession, order, sequence, gradation, step; series, cycle, round, catenation, concatenation; course, flow, chain, train.

progressive, adj. 1. reformist, progressivistic, re-visional, revisionist, meliorist, gradualistic, Fabian; liberal, liberalistic, left-wing, left of center.
2. progressing, advancing, enlightening; improving, ameliorative, meliorative, mending, bettering.
3. advanced, forward, avant-garde; modern, enlightened, twentieth-century, up-to-the-minute, up-to-date, abreast of the times; dynamic, active, motive.
4. forward-going, forward-moving, ongoing, continuing, profluent; going, moving, running, flowing, fluent, streaming, passing; successive, transitional, successional, consecutive, serial, sequential, catenary.
5. graduated, gradational, hierarchical, calibrated.
6. Medicine, increasing, worsening, intensifying, aggravating; extending, spreading, malignant, enlarging. -n. 7. liberal, progressivist, leftist, left-winger; reformer, reformist, revisionist, gradualist, meliorist, Fabian.

prohibit, v. 1. forbid, interdict, disallow, proscribe, outlaw, taboo, ban; reject, veto, turn thumbs down, nix, nay, deny, kill; quash, smother, subdue, quell; preclude, exclude, shut out, debar, bar, segregate, except, omit, disqualify; ostracize, banish, expel, exile, deport, throw out, kick out, excommunicate, blackball.
2. prevent, make impossible, put out of reach, leave no chance, rule out; stop, put a stop to, Archaic, for-fend, halt; arrest, check, abort, stay; hinder, obstruct, hamper, block, impede, interrupt, delay; thwart, foil, balk, frustrate; restrain, inhibit, constrain, repress, suppress.

prohibition, n. 1. interdiction, interdict, forbiddance, outlawry; proscription, injunction, disallowance, ban, embargo; rejection, veto, thumbs down, nix, nay, no, denial; exclusion, preclusion, debarment, exception, disqualification, segregation; ostracism, banishment, exile, expulsion, deportation, excommunication.
2. prevention, restriction, constriction, suppression; stoppage, determent, interruption, arrest, check, for-stalling, retardation; curb, inhibition, restraint, constraint; checkmate, deadlock, foreclosure; block, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, barrier, interference.

prohibitionist, n. teetotaler, nephalist, abstainer, water-drinker, hydropot; temperance advocate, W.C.T.U. member, blue-iibboner, blue-ribbonist, blue-ribbonite, Inf. dry, Chiefly Brit, pussyfoot; puritan, ascetic; Rechabite, Encratite.

prohibitive, adj. preventive, restrictive, constrictive, constraining, restraining, confining; exclusive, preclusive, exceptional; proscriptive, forbidding, inhibitory, prohibitory, interactive, repressive, suppressive; segregative, selective, separative.