escalate

About 0.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

   Violence escalated during the election.

2. verb In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority

   The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.

3. verb To climb.
4. verb To move by escalator.

Similar words

step up intensify heighten heightened heightening enhance increasing rise increase rising

Often followed by

the into to and in their as a from

Word family

escalated escalates escalating escalation escalations escalatory