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escalate
Definitions
[ˈɛskəleɪt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- increase rapidly
(e.g: the price of tickets escalated)
Phrases:
Origin
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1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator’): back-formation from escalator
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