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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to escalate:   (130 results)

Antonyms:
de-escalate, step down, weaken

Often used in the same context:
worsen, erupt, intensify, deteriorate, exacerbate, subside, skyrocket, provoke, aggravate, degenerate, inflame, ensue, abate, weaken, persist, rise, depress, diminish, normalize, explode, incite, complicate, roil, erode, soar, intervene, fester, heighten, instigate, destabilize, arise, defuse, precipitate, devolve, proliferate, threaten, happen, stoke, multiply, embroil, trigger, overshadow, polarize, politicize, occur, creep, engulf, undermine, spiraled, radicalize, ratcheting, outstrip, harden, recede, unfold, foment, exceed, deplete, constrain, backfire, embitter, overreact, stabilize, evolve, magnify, internationalize, ignite, plummet, degrade, grow, dissipate, dwindle, retaliate, tolerate, recur, curtail, tamp down, forebode, foresee, exasperate, agitate, communalise, respond, resolve, reduce, overwhelm, ratcheted, traumatise, disrupt, protracts, debilitate, anticipate, depreciate, flared, rages, vacillate, meddle, wane, deepen, foreshadow, preempt, intrude, intergroup, unresolved, escalating, interethnic, intrafamilial, intrafamily, intragroup, unresolvable, ethnopolitical, interparental, interpersonal, interracial, irresolvable, mideast, unsolved, empt, ethnic, ethnonational, exacerbated, intercommunal

More specific:
redouble

Appears in the definition of:
de-escalate

More general:
increase

Synonyms:
intensify, step up

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— Nouns for escalate: conflict, tensions conflicts, situations, tension, violence, aggression, dose, anger, crises, arguments, more...

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