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Supporting vs Furthering - What's the difference?

supporting | furthering |

As verbs the difference between supporting and furthering

is that supporting is present participle of lang=en while furthering is present participle of further.

As an adjective supporting

is that supports.

As a noun furthering is

the act by which something is furthered; furtherance.

supporting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That supports.

    • Derived terms

    * supporting actor * supporting aircraft * supporting arms * supporting artillery * supporting attack * supporting character

    Verb

    (head)

    • furthering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.