escalate

Oxford Dictionary
escalate
- IPA[ˈɛskəleɪt]
英式
- v.
  
  increase rapidly；make or become more intense or serious
- verb: escalate, 3rd person present: escalates, gerund or present participle: escalating, past tense: escalated, past participle: escalated
- 釋義
v.
動詞
1. increase rapidly the price of tickets escalated 同義詞 increase rapidly, soar, rocket, shoot up, mount, ... 更多surge, spiral, grow rapidly, rise rapidly, climb, go up, informalbe jacked up, go through the ceiling, go through the roof, skyrocket, balloon反義詞 plunge
▪ make or become more intense or serious the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot we do not want to escalate the war 同義詞 grow, develop, mushroom, increase, be increased, ... 更多be stepped up, build up, heighten, strengthen, intensify, accelerate, be extended, be enlarged, be magnified, be amplified反義詞 shrink

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