escalate Definition

intensify, step up, worsen, deteriorate, exacerbate, aggravate, degenerate, inflame, rise, soar, fester, heighten, intensifies, grow, rising, deepen, rises, increasing, heightening, increase, widen, amplify, scale, aggravating, aggravates, mount, expand, heightened, climb, strengthen, sharpen, ascend, enhance, mounts, widens, aggravation, derive, mounted, compound, upgrade, billowed, scalar, de-escalate, erupt, skyrocket, provoke, subside, ensue, abate, instigate, persist, diminish, defuse, incite, embroil, roil, foment, retaliate, dwindle, weaken, depress, normalize, explode, complicate, erode, intervene, destabilize, arise, precipitate, devolve, proliferate, threaten, happen, stoke, multiply, trigger, overshadow, polarize, politicize, occur, creep, engulf, undermine, spiraled, radicalize, ratcheting, outstrip, harden, recede, unfold, exceed, deplete, constrain, backfire, embitter, overreact, stabilize, evolve, magnify, internationalize,