English-Thai Dictionary

escalate

VI เพิ่มขึ้น  มากขึ้น  heighten increase intensify pome-kuan

 

escalate

VT ทำให้ เพิ่มขึ้น  ทำให้ มากขึ้น  heighten increase intensify tam-hai-pome-kuan

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

escalate

es ca late |ˈeskəˌlāt ˈɛskəˌleɪt | ▶verb [ no obj. ] increase rapidly: the price of tickets escalated | (as adj. escalating ) : the escalating cost of health care. • become or cause to become more intense or serious: [ no obj. ] : the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot | [ with obj. ] : we do not want to escalate the war. ORIGIN 1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator ’): back-formation from escalator .

 

Oxford Dictionary

escalate

escalate |ˈɛskəleɪt | ▶verb [ no obj. ] increase rapidly: the price of tickets escalated | (as adj. escalating ) : the escalating cost of health care. • make or become more intense or serious: [ no obj. ] : the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot | [ with obj. ] : we do not want to escalate the war. ORIGIN 1920s (in the sense ‘travel on an escalator ’): back-formation from escalator .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

escalate

escalate verb 1 prices have escalated: increase rapidly, soar, rocket, shoot up, mount, spiral, climb, go up, inflate; informal go through the ceiling, go through the roof, skyrocket. ANTONYMS plunge. 2 the dispute escalated: grow, develop, mushroom, increase, heighten, intensify, accelerate. ANTONYMS shrink.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

escalate

escalate verb 1 in three years' time prices will have escalated: increase rapidly, soar, rocket, shoot up, mount, surge, spiral, grow rapidly, rise rapidly, climb, go up; informal be jacked up, go through the ceiling, go through the roof, skyrocket, balloon. ANTONYMS plunge. 2 the dispute escalated into a sit-in: grow, develop, mushroom, increase, be increased, be stepped up, build up, heighten, strengthen, intensify, accelerate, be extended, be enlarged, be magnified, be amplified. ANTONYMS shrink.

 

French Dictionary

escalateur

escalateur ou escalator FORME FAUTIVE Anglicisme pour escalier mécanique, escalier roulant.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

escalate

es ca late /éskəlèɪt /動詞 自動詞 他動詞 1 (…が [を ]) «…に » エスカレートする [させる ], 段階的に上昇 [増大, 拡大 ]する [させる ] «into » .2 (〈費用など 〉が [を ]) (急に )上がる [げる ], 増す .