What's the for word for something which slowly grows or increases over time please?

What's the for word for something which slowly grows or increases over time please?

E.g. the protests, which "X" over time.

Crevice?

>the protests, which exacerbated over time.
>the protests, which worsened over time.
>the protests, which compounded over time.
>the protests, which intensified over time.
>the protests, which escalated over time.

waxed

what increased? the frequency? the scale? the intensity? increased is way too broad

exponentially

...

Accumulate

Engorged

logarithmically increased.

Exponentially actually means exponential, which has a specific definition (although it is often misused by layman). Exponential growth is hardly slow.

"slowly grew".

Flourished

augmented, fermented, burgeoned, accumulated,

ant-hilled

Accrued

Mounted
Grew
Proliferated
Multiplied
Got worse

In your context of protest, I would use "heated up"

metastasize

tumesced :3

Both of these mean something that grows incredibly fast

>this thread

Embiggened

Incremental

Embuggered

Logirithmic growth can be incredibly fast if it describes a relationship to a limiting factor

This is the answer by the way

non-linear?

>Gradually grew

GERMINATED

it can be slow. interest is an exponential function, but it grows very slowly for most people. depends on what you mean by slow though

...

Aroused

Augments? Expands?

Swells?

progressed in an arithmetic series

Do what Hemingway would do and simply write, "The protests, which slowly grew over time."

grew

Remember Orwell.

> slowly grows
is the best phrase to use.

the pedagogue which fermented the seed which brooded in mind of the swarm

Snowballed
/thread

> to snowball
is not 'slowly'.