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    es·ca·late
    [ˈeskəˌlāt]
    verb
    escalate (verb) · escalates (third person present) · escalated (past tense) · escalated (past participle) · escalating (present participle)
    1. increase rapidly:
      "the price of tickets escalated"
      • become or cause to become more intense or serious:
        "the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot" · "we do not want to escalate the war"
    Origin
    1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator’): back-formation from escalator.
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    verb
    1. increase rapidly:
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  1. v.intr. To increase in intensity, extent, or amount: tensions that escalated into violence. v.tr. 1. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. 2. To pass (a transaction or case) on to a higher level in an organizational hierarchy: escalated the customer's complaint.
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    to become or make something become greater or more serious: His financial problems escalated after he became unemployed. The row could escalate into full-blown conflict. The decision to escalate UN involvement has been made in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/escalate
    escalated; escalating : to increase in extent, volume, or scope : expand
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