Synonym: intensify, step up. Similar words: escalator, escalation, on a large scale, miscalculate, scalable, palate, calculate, mercalli scale. Meaning: ['eskəleɪt] 
v. increase in extent or intensity.
v. increase in extent or intensity. 
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(1) We do not want to escalate the war.
(2) Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate.
(3) The conflict could escalate into a full-blooded war.
(4) The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
(5) The conflict could escalate rapidly into a full-scale war.
(6) Local fighting threatens to escalate into full-scale war.
(7) Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.
(8) Observers have warned that the violence could escalate into full-scale armed conflict.
(9) Violence and harassment against abortion providers continued to escalate.
(10) New, more costly technologies constantly escalate per capita costs.
(11) The price of water continued to escalate.
(12) Gas prices are expected to continue to escalate in the short term.
(13) Levels of uncertainty escalate enormously in periods of punctuated equilibrium.
(14) And those costs continue to escalate, now pushing $ 40 million.
(15) Aggression and violence can escalate when jealousy and envy grow in a competitive atmosphere.
(16) It will escalate the dispute into a more politicised arena.
(17) Taking a position that could escalate division among House Republicans, Rep.
(18) The government now is proposing further to escalate its efforts by putting some of the Social Security trust fund in stocks.
(19) The overcrowding that could result would inevitably escalate the conflict.
(20) The possibility of enhancing one's knowledge is limitless.Graduation only marks a stage of one's education.Unceasing acquisition of knowledge will unceasingly escalate us to ever higher and higher attainments.
(21) Conditions are still very tense and the fighting could escalate at any time.
(22) There has been some decline in the number of claims, but the cost of claims continues to escalate.
(23) Ultimately the batterer is himself tricked by his lustful appetite, and his violent acts inevitably escalate.
(24) The drumbeat for an appointment of an independent counsel to investigate alleged abuses in campaign financing will almost certainly escalate. Sentencedict.com
(25) Increasingly he seemed fixated on the danger that it would escalate into a world war.
(26) The contentious meeting came as controversy over Clinton fund raising continued to escalate.
(27) And it left open the fourth option, to step up military action against Hanoi and otherwise escalate the war.
(28) The acute danger of any use of nuclear weapons is that this could escalate to a full-scale strategic exchange between the superpowers.
(29) It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate.
(30) Blaming quickiy becomes a dangerous and endless cycle that may escalate into acts of violence and crime.
More similar words: escalator, escalation, on a large scale, miscalculate, scalable, palate, calculate, mercalli scale, escape, escaped, escapee, escapade, escapism, descartes, escarpment, inescapable, scald, scale, calamus, fiscal, scaled, calamity, palatial, scallion, palatable, scalding, scalloped, calamitous, exhalation, inhalation.