All make headway synonyms

verb make headway

• project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
• uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• outlast — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
• lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
• abide — to tolerate; put up with
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• loiter — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
• rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
• outlive — to live longer than; survive (a person, period, etc.): She outlived her husband by many years.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• stagger — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
• journey — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
• hie — to hasten; speed; go in haste.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• lunge — a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
• travel — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
• voyage — a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
• flit — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
• dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
• scud — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
• tack — a lease, especially on farmland.
• skipper — a person or thing that skips.
• motor — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
• captain — In the army, navy, and some other armed forces, a captain is an officer of middle rank.
• wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
• boat — A boat is something in which people can travel across water.
• pilot — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
• set sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
• put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
• skirr — to go rapidly; fly; scurry.
• come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
• gain ground — profit or advantage.
• get ahead — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• go ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
• bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
• get there — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
• go forth — military: set out
• go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
• go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• go to town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
• make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
• move on — to pass from one place or position to another.