escalate

Object

• costsmary: In each model our findings indicate escalating insurance costsmary in which the.
• violence: There is a growing movement in Toronto at the moment to attempt to curb the escalating gun violence in the city.
• tension: Starting in early May 1954, the tensions escalated to strikes.
• confrontation: Hence too the escalating confrontation with Iran over its nuclear energy program.
• annuity: This is because the starting income for a level annuity is much higher whereas an escalating annuity starts low and rises in the future.
• conflict: International concern, already focussed on Darfur, has been growing over the escalating conflict in Chad.

Preposition: at

rate: Meanwhile the danger is escalating at a rate which should cause us all the most serious alarm.

Preposition: into

• conflict: The Slovenes resisted this re-imposition of central control, which rapidly escalated into an armed conflict.
• violence: Conflict seems endemic around the world, escalating into violence in which the only winners are those who deal in weapons.
• dispute: There are ways of dealing with these disagreements which prevent them escalating into major disputes.
• war: In 1998 a border dispute with Eritrea escalated into war.
• situation: Communications should also include a change management strategy, to prevent any changes at work escalating into a crisis situation.

Modifies a noun

website: Below are a number of new resources recently uploaded to the ESCalate website that you may find of interest.

Modifying Another Word

• rapidly: Worldwide, numbers of people with dementia are rapidly escalating.
• dramatically: The trend of targeting civilians has escalated dramatically in the past few weeks.
• sharply: They warned that costs of major construction projects have escalated sharply.
• quickly: Like Bea Smith, Rita develops an intense hatred of Joan Ferguson, which quickly escalates into an all out war.
• gradually: Instead, it was weak Administration policies that gradually escalated American involvement.
• significantly: By raising a question about parades along this road residents have significantly escalated the dispute.

Used with why or when

where: Automated procedures are in place to ensure that any unresolved calls are escalated where necessary.