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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
escalate /ˈɛskəleɪt/

▶verb

1 increase rapidly.

2 become or make more intense or serious.

– derivatives
escalation noun.

– origin 1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator’): back-form. from escalator.

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