630 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ˈɛskɐlˌe͡ɪt], [ ˈɛskɐlˌe‍ɪt], [ ˈɛ_s_k_ɐ_l_ˌeɪ_t]

Similar words for escalate:

• other relevant words (noun)
• ascend (verb)
• build (verb)
• change (verb)
• climb (verb)
• elevate (verb)
• increase (verb)
• increase, be increased (verb)
• inflate (verb)
• intensify (verb)
• jump (verb)
• leap (verb)
• mount (verb)
• outstretch (verb)
• proliferate (verb)
• raise (verb)
• rocket (verb)
• scale (verb)
• skyrocket (verb)
• soar (verb)
• spread (verb)
• step up (verb)
• other synonyms
• ascend
• go up
• increase
• intensify
• leap
• other relevant words
• skyrocket
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "escalate" in context?

Paraphrases for escalate

Homophones for escalate

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Synonyms for Escalate:

• n.

  •
  • go through the roof,
  • double.
  •
  • build up,
  • extend,
  • make matters/things worse,
  • aggrandize,
  • add fuel to the fire/flames,
  • boost,
  • do more harm than good.
  •
  • go down.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • deepen,
  • heighten,
  • grow,
  • expand.

• v.

  • ascend (verb)
  • lifted off,
  • moving up,
  • lifting off,
  • lifts off,
  • moves up.
  • build (verb)
  • ex tending,
  • ex-tends,
  • multi-plying,
  • ex tended,
  • ex tends,
  • multi-plied,
  • ex-tend,
  • multi plying,
  • ex-tending,
  • ex tend,
  • ex-tended.
  • change (verb)
  • escalate.
  • climb (verb)
  • aped up,
  • escalades,
  • aping up,
  • apes up.
  • elevate (verb)
  • erect,
  • upraise,
  • elevate,
  • lift,
  • exalt,
  • levitate,
  • hoist,
  • uplift,
  • rise,
  • rear.
  • increase (verb)
  • dis-tending,
  • in-creased,
  • dis tends,
  • in creased,
  • in-creases,
  • pro longing,
  • re-doubles,
  • re-doubled,
  • dis-tends,
  • pro-longing,
  • marks up,
  • in-creasing,
  • re doubles,
  • re-double,
  • pro-longs,
  • tacking on,
  • pro-tracts,
  • dis tended,
  • pro long,
  • pro tract,
  • pro-long,
  • tacked on,
  • dis-tended,
  • slapping on,
  • tacks on,
  • re double,
  • in creases,
  • pro longs,
  • dis tending,
  • in crease,
  • re doubled,
  • dis-tend,
  • in-crease,
  • pro-tract,
  • dis tend,
  • pro-longed,
  • re doubling,
  • in creasing,
  • pro tracts,
  • re-doubling.
  • increase, be increased (verb)
  • broaden,
  • make worse,
  • magnify.
  • inflate (verb)
  • over-estimates,
  • swells up,
  • sur-charging,
  • swelled up,
  • pyramidded,
  • sur charge,
  • over estimates,
  • sur-charges,
  • pumps up,
  • sur charges,
  • fleshes out,
  • over estimating,
  • sur-charge,
  • sur charged,
  • pyramidding,
  • sur-charged,
  • puffs up,
  • sur charging,
  • over-estimated,
  • over estimate,
  • over estimated,
  • over-estimating.
  • intensify (verb)
  • exaggerate,
  • accentuate,
  • emphasize,
  • underline,
  • sharpen,
  • stress.
  • jump (verb)
  • jacked up,
  • jacks up,
  • jacking up.
  • leap (verb)
  • saltated,
  • saltating,
  • saltates.
  • mount (verb)
  • be-strides,
  • be-stride,
  • climbed onto,
  • got upon,
  • gotten up on,
  • climbed up on,
  • be striding,
  • climbs upon,
  • up surge,
  • be-strid,
  • be-striding,
  • climb upon,
  • getting up on,
  • climbed upon,
  • gat up on,
  • climbing on,
  • climbs onto,
  • gotten upon,
  • gotten astride,
  • jumping on,
  • got astride,
  • gat astride,
  • be-stridden,
  • climbing onto,
  • climbing upon,
  • be stridden,
  • climbs up on,
  • up-surge,
  • get upon,
  • gets upon,
  • getting upon,
  • getting astride,
  • clambering up,
  • be-strode,
  • clambers up,
  • up surging,
  • clambered up,
  • jumps on,
  • be strode,
  • up-surging,
  • climbs on,
  • up surges,
  • up-surges,
  • gat upon,
  • be strid,
  • be strides,
  • be stride,
  • up surged,
  • climbing up on,
  • got up on,
  • up-surged,
  • gets up on,
  • gets astride.
  • outstretch (verb)
  • out-stretching,
  • out-stretched,
  • out stretched,
  • out-stretch,
  • out stretching,
  • out-stretches,
  • out stretches,
  • out stretch.
  • proliferate (verb)
  • pro create,
  • pro-creates,
  • grew rapidly,
  • re-produces,
  • pro creates,
  • pro creating,
  • grows rapidly,
  • re-producing,
  • growing rapidly,
  • re producing,
  • re-produced,
  • pro-creating,
  • re produced,
  • pro-create,
  • re produces,
  • re-produce,
  • pro-created,
  • pro created.
  • raise (verb)
  • goosed up,
  • pro-mote,
  • sending through the roof,
  • fetched up,
  • sending through roof,
  • ran up,
  • hiking up,
  • running up,
  • gooses up,
  • shoots up,
  • sends through the roof,
  • jumps up,
  • pro moting,
  • hikes up,
  • pro-moting,
  • sent through the roof,
  • sent through roof,
  • fetches up,
  • sends through roof,
  • fetching up,
  • pro-motes,
  • goosing up,
  • jumped up,
  • hiked up,
  • jumping up,
  • congressing,
  • send through roof.
  • rocket (verb)
  • goes through the ceiling,
  • go through ceiling,
  • goes through ceiling,
  • went through ceiling,
  • going through ceiling,
  • went through the ceiling.
  • scale (verb)
  • sur-mounting,
  • sur-mount,
  • sur-mounts,
  • sur mounts,
  • sur mounting,
  • sur-mounted,
  • sur mounted,
  • sur mount.
  • skyrocket (verb)
  • going through roof,
  • vaulted up,
  • goes through roof,
  • vaulting up,
  • went through the roof,
  • vaults up,
  • go through roof,
  • goes through the roof,
  • went through roof.
  • soar (verb)
  • up rears,
  • up-rear,
  • up-rears,
  • up rear,
  • up-reared,
  • up rearing,
  • up-rearing.
  • spread (verb)
  • being displayed,
  • un fold,
  • re aching,
  • was distributed,
  • are displayed,
  • pre pared,
  • un twisting,
  • un-furling,
  • evened out,
  • un coils,
  • un winding,
  • un furling,
  • over-laying,
  • pre pares,
  • being distributed,
  • wert displayed,
  • pre-pared,
  • un-folding,
  • pre-pare,
  • evening out,
  • un wound,
  • un-winding,
  • re ached,
  • re-ached,
  • un rolled,
  • un folding,
  • un-coiling,
  • un-folds,
  • un furled,
  • un-coil,
  • un twist,
  • un folded,
  • rolling out,
  • un-rolling,
  • un winds,
  • was displayed,
  • dis perse,
  • un twisted,
  • un twists,
  • un-wound,
  • over lays,
  • un-rolls,
  • un-twisted,
  • over-laid,
  • wert distributed,
  • wast distributed,
  • un coiling,
  • un-wind,
  • are distributed,
  • pre pare,
  • dis-perse,
  • un-roll,
  • over laid,
  • un-twist,
  • wast displayed,
  • un-furled,
  • am displayed,
  • un-coils,
  • un roll,
  • am distributed,
  • rolls out,
  • un-twisting,
  • un coil,
  • re-aching,
  • over laying,
  • un rolls,
  • un coiled,
  • un-winds,
  • un-rolled,
  • were distributed,
  • were displayed,
  • is displayed,
  • is distributed,
  • un-coiled,
  • pre-paring,
  • un-twists,
  • over-lay,
  • un folds,
  • un-folded,
  • over-lays,
  • un wind,
  • un-fold,
  • un rolling,
  • pre paring.
  • step up (verb)
  • speeds up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • crank up,
  • outrun,
  • creep up,
  • upsurge,
  • level up,
  • fatten,
  • descend into,
  • vitiate,
  • widen,
  • top-up,
  • mount up,
  • bump up,
  • pile on,
  • fuel,
  • regress,
  • triple,
  • degrade,
  • deteriorate,
  • force up,
  • add to,
  • advance,
  • beef up,
  • exacerbate,
  • zoom,
  • sprout,
  • worsen,
  • aggravate,
  • pervert,
  • bubble up,
  • inch,
  • explode,
  • Top out,
  • complicate,
  • ratchet,
  • stack up.
  •
  • boil over,
  • inflame,
  • accrue,
  • wax,
  • disturb,
  • enlarge,
  • augment,
  • boil up,
  • amplify,
  • snowball,
  • treble,
  • outgrow,
  • peak,
  • gather,
  • rally,
  • swell,
  • hike,
  • burgeon.
  •
  • rot,
  • degenerate,
  • fester,
  • slip into,
  • spike,
  • surge.
  •
  • jump,
  • decay,
  • slip,
  • suffer,
  • up.
  •
  • slide.
  •
  • go off.
  •
  • sink.
  •
  • go.
  • ascend
  • lift off,
  • took off,
  • moved up,
  • move up.
  • go up
  • ascend.
  • increase
  • slap on,
  • slapped on,
  • mark up,
  • Tripled,
  • tack on,
  • tripling,
  • teem,
  • marking up,
  • marked up,
  • triples.
  • intensify
  • heated up,
  • toned up,
  • heat up,
  • pour it on,
  • tone up,
  • set off,
  • Intensate,
  • setting off,
  • pour on,
  • heats up.
  • leap
  • saltate,
  • leaping.
  • Other relevant words:
  • build,
  • leap,
  • intensify,
  • goosed,
  • mount,
  • rolled out,
  • roll out,
  • overestimate,
  • forgathered,
  • increase,
  • spread,
  • be displayed,
  • shoot up,
  • piled up,
  • step up,
  • ape up,
  • goes up,
  • jump on,
  • hike up,
  • go up,
  • climb,
  • maximize,
  • gooses,
  • clamber up,
  • diffusing,
  • Escaladed,
  • fleshed out,
  • speeding up,
  • run up,
  • untwists,
  • pump up,
  • Escalading,
  • inflate,
  • Surcharging,
  • surcharge,
  • evens out,
  • scale,
  • forgather,
  • be distributed,
  • grow rapidly,
  • get astride,
  • upsurging,
  • send through the roof,
  • overestimating,
  • untwisted,
  • speeded up,
  • Outstretch,
  • Winging,
  • goose up,
  • uncoiling,
  • congressed,
  • unfurls,
  • soar,
  • Surcharged,
  • over-estimate,
  • climbed on,
  • untwisting,
  • outstretched,
  • bestride,
  • pile up,
  • pumped up,
  • Bestriding,
  • going through the ceiling,
  • puffing up,
  • climb up on,
  • piling up,
  • jumped on,
  • get up on,
  • puff up,
  • flesh out,
  • pumping up,
  • forgathers,
  • multiply,
  • maximizing,
  • went up,
  • uncoil,
  • uncoils,
  • bestrid,
  • diffuses,
  • forgathering,
  • uncoiled,
  • bestrides,
  • upsurged,
  • climb onto,
  • piles up,
  • mounting,
  • sped up,
  • shooting up,
  • raise,
  • rocket,
  • Soared,
  • shot up,
  • maximizes,
  • jack up,
  • Massing,
  • overestimates,
  • runs up,
  • swelling up,
  • jump up,
  • Bestridden,
  • even out,
  • diffused,
  • speed up,
  • maximized,
  • escalade,
  • swell up,
  • overestimated,
  • go through the ceiling,
  • going up,
  • fetch up,
  • goosing,
  • untwist,
  • climb on,
  • Bestrode,
  • skyrocket,
  • proliferate.
  • skyrocket
  • catapulted,
  • vault up,
  • going through the roof,
  • catapulting.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • escalation,
  • sky,
  • balloon,
  • supersize,
  • focus,
  • Upclimb,
  • accumulate,
  • heave,
  • clamber,
  • stoke,
  • loft,
  • get into,
  • Uprear,
  • add,
  • gain,
  • step,
  • go uphill,
  • hype,
  • be elevated,
  • appreciate,
  • upcast,
  • throw up,
  • knock up,
  • raise up,
  • quicken,
  • cast up,
  • perk up,
  • rear up,
  • hover,
  • hot up,
  • upheave,
  • arise,
  • fly,
  • enhance,
  • strengthen,
  • develop,
  • upthrow,
  • compound,
  • full,
  • reinforce,
  • come out,
  • redouble,
  • be lifted,
  • drive up,
  • lift up,
  • step forward,
  • sky-rocket,
  • rev up,
  • heft,
  • come forward,
  • uphold,
  • step-up,
  • climb up,
  • stick up,
  • assemble,
  • get on,
  • set up,
  • whet,
  • boom,
  • move upwards,
  • heist,
  • accelerate,
  • concentrate,
  • hold up,
  • hoick,
  • mushroom,
  • take action,
  • buoy up,
  • lob,
  • be boosted,
  • elevation,
  • bring up.

How to use "Escalate" in context?

Paraphrases for Escalate:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    escalated, escalating.
  • Proper noun, singular
    escalated, escalates, escalating.
  • Noun, plural
    escalates.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, base form
    de-escalate.

• Independent

  • Noun, plural
    Rages, increases, intensifies, rises.
  • Verb, past tense
    intensified, mounted, Billowed, Grew, Soared, Stepped.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    heightening, intensifying, mounting.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    steps, aggravates, deepens, increases, intensifies, widens, strengthens, enhances, rises.
  • Verb, base form
    accelerate, accentuate, aggravate, amplify, augment, deepen, derive, deteriorate, enhance, exacerbate, expand, grow, heighten, inflame, sharpen, strengthen, upgrade, Enhancing.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    climb, degenerate, widen, worsen.

Homophones for Escalate:

• equal to, exalt, eagle-eyed, ejaculate, escalade, eschalot, eclat, egalite, eaglet, exocycloida, Egality, exalted, excel at, eskalith, exclude, exult, euclid, equality.

Hypernym for Escalate:

• v.

  • change
    redouble.

Hyponym for Escalate:

• v.

  • change
    increase.