Escalate

Verb
(transitive and intransitive)


 * 1) to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up
 * Violence escalated during the election.
 * The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
 * 1) in technical support, to transfer a telephone caller to the next higher level of authority
 * The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.

Thesaurus
boost, broaden, buoy up, cast up, climb, elevate, enlarge, erect, escalade, expand, grow, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, increase, intensify, jerk up, knock up, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, mount, perk up, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, scale, set up, sky, spread, stick up, throw up, up, upbuoy, upcast, upclimb, upgo, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, widen

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 升高 (shēnggāo)


 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:
 * Portuguese: intensificar

Derived terms

 * deescalate

Related terms

 * escalator