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121build — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. construct, make, fashion; erect; found. See form, production. n. physique, body. See building. Ant., demolish, raze. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To construct] Syn. erect, construct, frame, raise, rear,… …
122intensify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. deepen, strengthen, heighten, sharpen; concentrate; aggravate (see increase). See strength. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. strengthen, heighten, sharpen, emphasize, deepen, escalate, increase, aggravate,… …
123proliferate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. spread, multiply. See multitude, reproduction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. increase, engender, procreate, generate; see propagate 1 , reproduce 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) v.… …
124rise — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. arise, ascend, soar; slope upward; loom, appear; increase, augment; originate, spring from; get up; prosper; revolt, rebel. n. ascent; acclivity, slope; origin, source; appreciation, increase;… …
125descend — [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’,… …
126escalation — derived noun from ESCALATE (Cf. escalate); in the figurative sense it is from 1938, in reference to the battleship arms race among global military powers …
127mount — [v1] climb arise, ascend, back, bestride, clamber up, climb onto, climb up on, escalade, escalate, get astride, get up on, go up, jump on, lift, rise, scale, soar, tower, up, vault; concepts 149,154,166 Ant. alight, dismount, fall mount [v2]… …
128descend — [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’,… …
