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ramps up

vb. (en-third-person singularramp up)

Usage examples of "ramps up".

However, they might wise up and bring one of their ramps up into the town with them to reach the roof where many of us will be firing down upon them.

The Rebel had moved his surviving towers and ramps up to the extreme limit of our artillery.

I'm remembering how the Lizzars finally got us by shoving huge ramps up against our town so they didn't have to climb.

We even held them off a little with the Molotovs as they brought the ramps up.

Stokes knew he could lay his guns so that they would hammer both walls at once, and that when the ancient stonework crumbled, the rubble would spill forward down the slope to make natural ramps up which the attackers could climb.

The port didn't have sloping ramps up which oar-driven warships could be drawn to prevent their light hulls from decaying while not in use.

Any epidemic starts low and ramps up, slowly at first, like a tangential curve, and then it rockets up geometrically.