Usually means: Increase or intensify in severity.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. escalate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. escalate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escalate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escalate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escalate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Escalate, escalate: Wordnik
  7. escalate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. escalate: Wiktionary
  9. escalate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. escalate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. escalate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. escalate: Dictionary.com
  13. escalate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. escalate: Rhymezone
  15. escalate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. escalate: Free Dictionary
  17. escalate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. escalate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  19. escalate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESCALATE: Acronym Finder
  2. escalate: Idioms

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  1. escalate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
verb:  (transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
verb:  (uncommon) To climb.
verb:  (rare) To move by escalator.

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