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mounting

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mounting

a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else
  • built a new mounting for the engine
Synonyms of mounting

brace, buttress, mount, prop, reinforcement, shore, spur, stay, support, underpinning
Words Related to mounting

shoring

column, pedestal, pilaster, pillar

arch, bolster, bracket, cantilever, girder

bearing

crutch, peg, post, stake, stanchion, stand, stilt, strut, truss

base, foundation, frame

mounting

verb , present participle of mount

Synonyms and Antonyms of mounting

1 to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number
  • medical expenses began to mount
Synonyms of mounting

accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing
Words Related to mounting

jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surging

heightening, intensifying, redoubling

blowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)

crescendoing, cresting, peaking
Antonyms of mounting

contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning
2 to bring before the public in performance or exhibition
  • the huge amount of money needed to mount an opera
Synonyms of mounting

carrying, giving, offering, presenting, staging
Words Related to mounting

displaying, exhibiting, exposing, parading, showing, showing off, unveiling

previewing

acting, impersonating, performing, playing, portraying

depicting, dramatizing, enacting, rendering, representing

extending, proffering, tendering
Phrases Synonymous with mounting

coming out with
3 to move or extend upward
  • the cable car continues to mount to ever higher terrain until the moment when the entire valley comes into view
Synonyms of mounting

arising, ascending, aspiring, climbing, lifting, rising, soaring, thrusting, upping, uprearing, uprising, upthrusting, upturning
Words Related to mounting

surging, towering

boosting, elevating, raising, upheaving, uplifting, upraising

ballooning, blasting off, taking off, zooming

cresting, scaling, surmounting, topping

canting, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping
Near Antonyms of mounting

diving, nose-diving, plummeting, sinking, sliding
Antonyms of mounting

declining, descending, dipping, dropping, falling (off), plunging

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