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escalated

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /ˌes.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/
    • /ˈes.kə.leɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˌes.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/

Definitions of escalated word

  • noun escalated Increase rapidly. 1
  • verb escalated simple past tense and past participle of escalate. 0

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Parts of speech for Escalated

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

escalated popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for escalated

verb escalated

  • worsened — Simple past tense and past participle of worsen.
  • heightened — to increase the height of; make higher.
  • deteriorated — Become progressively worse.
  • increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
  • rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.

Antonyms for escalated

verb escalated

  • improved — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • declined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
  • decreased — Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
  • diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  • dropped — Let or make (something) fall vertically.

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