Translation of "Aumentava" in English

Naquele instante, todos me miravam e me pressionavam, o que apenas aumentava meu nervosismo.

At that moment, everybody was staring at me and putting me under pressure, which just made me even more nervous.

Não havia comida em lugar nenhum, e a fome aumentava cada vez mais; tanto no Egito como em Canaã o povo definhava de tanto passar fome.

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.