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skyrocket

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
  2. noun A rebuke, a scolding.
  3. noun A pocket.
  4. verb To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
    The shortage caused prices to skyrocket.
  5. verb To cause to increase suddenly and extremely.

Similar words

rocket soar firework crackling microstar mine star rocket ship fire star shell stomp rocket

Often followed by

in and to as from if was when during

Word family

skyrocketed skyrocketing skyrockets

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