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Escalates
To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
📖 Definitions of "Escalates"
verb
- 1
To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
"The shooting escalated the existing hostility."
- 2
In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
"The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2."
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