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making headway

making headway is the present participle and gerund of make headway.

Meaning of make headway

Verb

make headway (third-person singular simple present makes headway, present participle making headway, simple past and past participle made headway)

  1. (idiomatic) To progress; to move forward.
    • I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all.
    Antonyms:
    tread water

Questions about making headway

What is making headway the present participle and gerund of?
Making headway is the present participle and gerund of make headway.

Words near making headway in the dictionary

  1. making haste slowly
  2. making hay
  3. making hay while the sun shines
  4. making head against
  5. making head or tail of
  6. making headway
  7. making heavy going of
  8. making heavy weather
  9. making heavy weather of
  10. making history
  11. making interesting

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