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escalate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1922, "to use an escalator," back-formation from escalator , replacing earlier verb escalade (1801), from the noun escalade . Escalate came into general use with a figurative sense of "raise" from 1959 (intrans.), originally in reference to scenarios for ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES escalating/growing violence (= violence that is becoming worse ) ▪ There have been reports of escalating violence in the region. the violence escalates (= becomes worse ) ▪ The violence escalated as youths turned over ...
Usage examples of escalate.
Smith turned into the gates of Folcroft Sanitarium, he promised himself that he would hunt down Captain Audion before the situation could escalate further.
After release from prison, his crimes escalated to the murder of three young women by asphyxia.
Skyla watched Arta Fera through slitted eyesAhe game had escalated, with each acutely aware of the stakes.
Sarra arrived back at the courtyard bonfire in time to see a difference of opinion between Keler Neffe and Sevat Semalson escalate into a shouting match.
On June 30, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Wildes, and Rebecca Nurse faced a Court of Oyer and Terminer that had sorted out the questions concerning proper evidence and was ready to deal firmly with the escalating threat of witchcraft.
The final confrontation between Rambo and Teasle would show that in this microcosmic version of the Vietnam war and American attitudes about it, escalating force results in disaster.
Beginning with pushing and shoving, and ritualized defecating and sniffing, the contests escalated, especially during the spring rutting season, to rearing, biting necks, striking at knees, and kicking out hind legs toward faces, heads, and chests.
Fleet and Ryis, not to mention the escalating problems with the Gamon.
The troubled din of the Iad was continuing to escalate through this exchange, and now, staring past Kissoon into the darkness beyond the faltering walls, Harry saw its abstractions unknitting, its wheel fragmenting.
Young couples would purchase that property, they would take up occupancy, they would quarrel, the quarreling would escalate to shouting and table-pounding, they would anathematize each other, and, presto, they would move out, not together but separately.
As the conflict escalates, I want you all to begin evaluating the situation autonomously and to feel free to take independent action.
They are Section A attacks escalated to one more level of viciousness and are of course in Blamer Mode.
As the American intervention widened and escalated, the way the war was conducted also came to be stigmatized as involving atrocities, illegal uses of force, and even a secret campaign of genocide.
They had barely been on Telos an hour, and already the situation had escalated out of control.
Dutch had said that his rescue mission was hush-hush stuff because of the risk of starting a war, and at the time, this particular pair of banana republics had been closest to escalating their perpetual disagreements and border incidents into something bloodier and more formal.