Escalates

verb

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

"The shooting escalated the existing hostility."

2.verbIn 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."

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