Ratcheting

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo cause to become incremented or decremented.

"It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here."

2.verbTo increment or decrement.

3.nounThe act by which something is ratcheted.

4.nounA conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.

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