escalate
verb
[ ˈɛskəleɪt ]
• increase rapidly.
• "the price of tickets escalated"
Similar:
increase rapidly,
soar,
rocket,
shoot up,
mount,
surge,
spiral,
grow rapidly,
rise rapidly,
climb,
go up,
be jacked up,
go through the ceiling,
go through the roof,
skyrocket,
balloon,
Origin:
1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator’): back-formation from escalator.
