escalate
/ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/ verb C1- To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. · Violence escalated during the election.· The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
- 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.
- To climb.
He/she/it escalates · Past escalated · Past participle escalated · -ing form escalating
Verb forms
- Base form
- escalate
- He/she/it
- escalates
- Past
- escalated
- Past participle
- escalated
- -ing form
- escalating
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