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   escalate

   /ˈɛskəleɪt/

   verb

   • 1. increase rapidly: "the price of tickets escalated" Similar increase rapidlysoarrocketshoot upmountsurgespiralgrow rapidlyrise rapidlyclimbgo upinformal:be jacked upgo through the ceilinggo through the roofskyrocketballoonOpposite plunge
   • ▪ make or become more intense or serious: "the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot" Similar growdevelopmushroomincreasebe increasedbe stepped upbuild upheightenstrengthenintensifyacceleratebe extendedbe enlargedbe magnifiedbe amplifiedOpposite shrink

   Word Origin 1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator’): back-formation from escalator.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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