All 4 Uses
escalate
in
Nineteen Minutes
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- Apparently, Loomis had escalated his criminal resume last night when he and two friends decided to go after a drug dealer who didn't bring them enough pot.†
Chpt 1
- 'Why is it hurting again?' she asked, her voice escalating.†
Chpt 1 *
- If it escalates, and the kids are brought in to me, then yes.†
Chpt 1
- 'Even when a battered woman is not immediately under physical threat, she psychologically believes she is, thanks to a chronic, escalating pattern of violence that's caused her to suffer from PTSD.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(escalate) increase in extent or intensity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)