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Word "ESCALATE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
increase in extent or intensity
Synonyms:
intensify, step up
Examples:
The Allies escalated the bombing

Crossword Clues for ESCALATE

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Make it worse by giving Mescal a terrible part
Expand (conflict) (8)
Increase scope of criminal case and others under review (8)
Step up from key area behind schedule (8)
Behind schedule following escape with a snowball (8)
Increase extent or intensity
Amplify complex case delayed (8)
Rapidly get more (8)
Dead after half a snail in Paris - and it could get worse! (8)
Male lacking in spirit worried to move upstairs (8) The Guardian Cryptic 28 Feb 2025
Increase(8)
Gives us lace to make and kiss (8)
Intensify, the tension will ...
Rise late after working out case (8)
Intensify (conflict)
Intensify (war)
Let a case somehow intensify (8)
Climb ruined castle capturing a base The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Oct 2024
Case, terribly overdue, to intensify (8)
Step up late case for a change (8)
Step up in case badly behind time (8) Puzzler Cryptic 15 Aug 2024
To get higher, Cate adds a few more ales in the mix (8)
Rapidly get more to go on the moving staircase (8)
Step up in case badly behind time (8) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Jun 2024
Intensify or worsen
Regularly mess about with new mushroom The Telegraph Toughie 21 May 2024
Step up and lease cat out (8)
Increase rapidly in scale (8)
Key article delayed increase (8)
Increase fast in intensity
Increase in extent or intensity Irish Times Simplex 15 Apr 2024
Tea scale possibly is to increase by stages (8)
Increase quickly Commuter 10 Apr 2024
Sneakily laces tea to increase intensity (8)
Ramp up case cracked after deadline The Sun Two Speed 05 Apr 2024
Snowball The Sun Two Speed 05 Apr 2024
Suddenly rise
Rapidly increase energy before climb around a peak in Tanzania (8)
You are in Rome, caught with a dead mushroom (8)
You are in Rome, caught with a dead mushroom The Telegraph Toughie 13 Feb 2024
Rapidly increase The Sun Two Speed 19 Jan 2024
Ramp up case cracked after deadline The Sun Two Speed 19 Jan 2024
Step up with revised case behind schedule (8)
Ascend
To increase rapidly (8)
Step up Newsday 03 Dec 2023
Intensify Universal 02 Aug 2023
Heighten Premier Sunday 02 Jul 2023
Expand radio station in the middle of Exeter, with completion on schedule The Telegraph Toughie 23 Feb 2023
Rapidly increase The Times Concise 08 Oct 2022
Increase rapidly
Increase rapidly The Times Concise 22 Feb 2022
Increase in extent or intensity Irish Times Simplex 27 Jan 2022
Rocket delayed after case redesigned
Increase in extent or intensity Irish Times Simplex 19 May 2021
Intensify Premier Sunday 07 Mar 2021
Get out of hand in a hurry The Washington Post 20 Feb 2021
Get out of hand in a hurry LA Times Daily 20 Feb 2021
Case modified after usual time to increase in intensity The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Feb 2021
Criminal case is delayed in Spiral Irish Times Crosaire 27 Jan 2021
Intensify Eugene Sheffer 17 Aug 2020
Key article delayed getting rocket The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Apr 2020
Step up key piece of activity after usual close of business?
Increase quickly New York Times 11 Aug 2019
Increase intensity sorting case behind on time
Intensify The Telegraph Quick 25 Apr 2019
Jack up USA Today 22 Apr 2019
Intensify; step up The Guardian Speedy 10 Feb 2019
Ramp up case cracked after deadline The Sun Two Speed 04 Jan 2019
Increase quickly
Jack up
Discontentedly expostulates about dead mushroom
Increase The Telegraph Quick 13 Dec 2018
Increase key activities, initially in the evening
Rapidly increase The Sun Two Speed 05 Oct 2018
Expand case cracked after deadline The Sun Two Speed 05 Oct 2018
Intensify Newsday 30 Sep 2018
Doctor let a case threaten to get out of control The Telegraph Cryptic 13 May 2018
Rapidly increase The Times Concise 22 Mar 2018
Grow roughly fifty for the first time in grounds
Increase rapidly in intensity Irish Times Simplex 29 Jan 2018
Step up, as a conflict USA Today 17 Nov 2017
Living in English castle somehow is a step up
Key on a dead mushroom
Ramp up The Times Concise 31 Mar 2017
Partially escape a delayed surge
Extend another case that's delayed
Snowball Newsday 28 Jan 2017
Rocket, key one, behind time
Step up, as a conflict
Intensify destruction of a celesta
Alec's tea involved mushroom and rocket
Heat up Wall Street Journal 04 Sep 2015
Intensify Universal 08 Jul 2015
Note a series of musical notes contains a time increase
Heat up
Intensify
Awkward case behind schedule to mount in tension
Increase about to be seen in European list of candidates
Intensify
Heat up
Step up
Magnify computer key area and left upset
Increase
Intensify
Intensify
Grow more intense
Intensify
Kick up
Grow more intense
Intensify
Jack up
Snowball
Snowball
Grow more intense
Swell
Increase
Step up
Step up
Snowball
Go up
Step up
Increase in intensity
Increase a conflict
Up the ante
Heat up
Step up
Snowball
Rise
Grow rapidly
Step up
Increase
Mount
Raise
Increase
Increase rapidly, as prices
Step up.
Ascend without walking.
Intensify.
Grow more intense
Carry up
Increase in intensity.
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