escalate

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There is nothing new in Haikal's argument, this salary issue reported by many American writers also, but Jordan's anger came because this issue raised for the first time on popular Aljazeera TV in Arabic. escalate the problem by lowering its representation in the coming Arab summit in Doha.

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  1. transitive verb To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf.
  2. intransitive verb To increase in intensity or extent: "a deepening long-term impasse that is certain to escalate” (Stewart L. Udall).

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  • The voices of her family were already beginning to escalate, and the first course had yet to be completed I've said it once and I'll say it again. —  Chapter One
  • If the violence continues to escalate, along with human rights abuses by the army, Mexican society may soon tire of the fight.
  • If you're clueless yourself about how to de-escalate or resolve conflict, that's understandable, panelists say.
  • The situation could easily deteriorate once prices of basic consumer goods and services again unjustly escalate, which is to be expected for as long as the government insists on the already discredited principles of free market economics namely, deregulation, liberalization and privatization. —  Bulatlat
  • Our goal in the '68 offensive was to force them to de-escalate, to break the American will to remain in the war. —  Workers World news online
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escalate:   escalating ·  escalated
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