Escalate
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- v. ( 战争等) 升级; 扩大, 上升
- ［英］ v. ( 战争等) 升级 ( to make a conflict more serious) ; 扩大, 上升 ( to grow or increase rapidly)
- ［类］ 反义词: diminish ( 减小)
- ［记］ 来自Escalator, 原来是自动电梯的商标, 后来才出现了动词 escalate
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
verb (-lated; -lating)
- Etymology: back-formation from escalator
- Date: 1944
- intransitive verb
- to increase in extent, volume, number, amount, intensity, or scope <a little war threatens to escalate into a huge ugly one — Arnold Abrams>
- transitive verb
- expand 2
- ? escalation noun
- ? escalatory adjective
