Advance
Advance verb - To move forward along a course.
Usage example: as the technology advances, electronic devices keep getting smaller and smarter
Stunt
Stunt verb - To hold back the normal growth of.
Usage example: unfortunately, an unusually dry summer seems to have permanently stunted the tree
How words are described
| good | good advance | good stunt |
| similar | similar advance | similar stunt |
| complete | complete advance | complete stunt |
| original | original advance | original stunt |
| Other adjectives: single, romantic, real, big, little, new, literal, earlier. | ||
Common collocations
| character | advance character | stunt character |
| development | advance development | stunt development |
| arc | advance arc | stunt arc |
Both words in one sentence
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With the appropriate stunt in Spirit of the Century, characters can disguise themselves thoroughly enough that they don't even have to declare in advance what they are disguising themselves as.
Source: Master of Disguise -
Yellow Claw in Agents of Atlas turns out to just be a feeble, dying old man whose schemes turned out to be just a desperate publicity stunt to advance the career of his chosen heir.
Source: The Man Behind the Curtain - They even have their own medical concentration camps and they're perfectly willing to stunt the Locust advance by killing the vast majority of their own people with WMDs and preserve the human race by impregnating women against their will.
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Stunt and Advance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/advance/stunt
Advance & Stunt. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/advance/stunt>.
Stunt or Advance. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/advance/stunt.
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