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mounting

1 adjective
     
mount‧ing1 [only before noun]
gradually increasing - often used about things that cause problems or trouble :
There was mounting pressure on him to resign.
The government has come under mounting criticism in the press.
They faced mounting debts.
There's mounting evidence of a link between obesity and some forms of cancer.
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