RATCHET UP meaning: Increase or intensify step by step - OneLook

Usually means: Increase or intensify step by step.

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ratchet up)

▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To increase.

Similar:

ratchet, ramp up, jack up, bump up, rev up, turn the screw, spike up, kick up, turn up the heat, rile up, more...

Opposite:

decrease, lower, reduce, diminish, ease

Adjectives:

rising, elevate, assurgent, upstart, up, upcast, jack, uplevel, ascendant, ascending, step-up

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Similar:

ratchet, ramp up, jack up, bump up, rev up, turn the screw, spike up, kick up, turn up the heat, rile up, more...

Opposite:

decrease, lower, reduce, diminish, ease

Adjectives:

rising, elevate, assurgent, upstart, up, upcast, jack, uplevel, ascendant, ascending, step-up

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