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escalate English

Meaning escalate meaning

What does escalate mean?

escalate

— verb increase in extent or intensity The Allies escalated the bombing

Synonyms escalate synonyms

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escalate English » English

increase intensify aggravate step up magnify heighten augment amplify work supplement screw up scale up rise quicken make worse improve hike grow goose excite escalation enlarge brisk boost agitate accelerate

Topics escalate topics

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Increase

Conjugation escalate conjugation

How do you conjugate escalate?

escalate · verb

Examples escalate examples

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Simple sentences

The White House worries that the crisis could escalate.
How can we de-escalate the conflict?

Movie subtitles

And now, as the Sino-Russian border war continues to rapidly escalate.
But if you made films, like I do, costs escalate to millions!
Things might escalate.
Escalate?
We are not going to escalate a whole war just so we can book a big-name comedian.
I would rather not escalate the situation any further.
And with each act of retribution, the violence would escalate.
We don't want to escalate!
Do we escalate?
No one's spoken of retaliation yet, but if this is anything other than natural illness, if anyone did anything to him this could escalate fast.
You let this situation escalate.
So far, no one's been killed, so there is no reason for this to escalate, unless.
Attacking the Cardassians now will only escalate the conflict, and make peace more expensive in the long run.
If the Maquis are not stopped, the situation will continue to escalate and the Cardassian military will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
He'd escalate, we'd escalate, and soon somebody pushes a button.
And now, as the Sino-Russian border war continues to rapidly escalate. U.S. Authorities are beginning to question to what degree we will become involved. in what could swiftly grow into global conflict.
We can escalate, too.
When did whatever it is escalate to our marriage? Over lunch.
Captain, if the Maquis are not stopped this situation will continue to escalate to the point where the Cardassian military will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
They don't want this situation to escalate.
The last thing we want to do is escalate the situation.
This conflict between the Federation and the Dominion could escalate into open warfare at any moment.
But don't escalate.
He means things will escalate, of course.
I don't want to escalate sexually because I'm afraid of the relationship's extinction.
The situation can only escalate.
They screwed this up on purpose to escalate the situation.
Well.. l do tend to escalate things and you do tend to downplay them.

News and current affairs

The current violence may escalate further, and could bring down the Hamas government.
Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re-escalate the conflict.
Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.
And, with global growth weakening further in 2012, those battles could escalate into trade wars.
The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.
Finally, there is a similar risk that Asia's terrestrial and maritime territorial disagreements (starting with the disputes between China and Japan) could escalate into outright military conflict.
America should similarly promote an open international economy and commons (seas, space, Internet), mediate international disputes before they escalate, and develop international rules and institutions.
Israel, for its part, still reeling from the trauma of its ill-begotten war in Lebanon in 1982, chose not to respond to Hezbollah's attacks and hoped that the attacks would not escalate.
This might be advantageous for Bush's domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only escalate the risk of a Middle East explosion.
Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.
Although President George W. Bush apologized twice for the deaths of the girls, demands continue to escalate for changing the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) that governs the legal treatment of American troops stationed in South Korea.
There is no way around a strategy of engagement and containment with regard to North Korea or the crisis will escalate.
Here the result can only be that Russia will be forced to cave in disgracefully, because we lack sufficient strength to hold our ground and dare not irresponsibly escalate the matter into a global crisis.
This delicate situation could escalate into further currency intervention, trade protectionism, and capital controls.
If the Security Council fails to authorize action, those of us determined to protect Libyan civilians will face a more difficult choice should the violence escalate.
Any attempt to evacuate them could escalate into a civil war.
By contrast, if China's economic growth slows, which is likely in the coming years, protest against corruption - a source of fragility for any regime - will escalate.
But the danger that any conflict could escalate into a nuclear confrontation prevented reckless and dangerous behavior on both sides on more than one occasion.
Second, markets could be incorrect in their assessment that conflicts like that between Russia and Ukraine, or Syria's civil war, will not escalate or spread.
If China joined this race to the bottom, others would be tempted to escalate their actions and world financial markets would be subject to yet another source of serious instability.
In August, thousands of refugees became stranded at Budapest's Keleti train station for days on end when Hungary's vexed and incompetent government deliberately allowed the situation to escalate.
Its moral authority has been compromised in the Bush years, it cannot put more troops on the ground to defend Georgian sovereignty, and, even if it could, doing so would escalate the crisis.

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