get ahead (v.)

• accrue
• accumulate
• advance
• ameliorate
• amend
• appreciate
• arrive
• balloon
• bloat
• boom
• breed
• broaden
• crescendo
• develop
• farewell
• gain
• go
• graduate
• grow
• improve
• increase
• intensify
• meliorate
• mend
• mount
• move
• multiply
• proceed
• progress
• proliferate
• prosper
• rise
• roll
• skyrocket
• snowball
• spread
• stem
• strengthen
• succeed
• swell
• travel
• wax
• widen