escalates
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escalates verb
- To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.“The shooting escalated the existing hostility.”
- In 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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step upintensifyaggravatesascendsdeepensexacerbateexacerbatesgetsincreasesincreasingintensifiesmountsqualifiesriserisesrising
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