escalate violence
1escalate violence — increase violence …
2escalate — is a 1920s back formation from escalator (first recorded in 1900), and has burst the bounds of meaning that a word for a moving staircase might be expected to impose. Not surprisingly, escalate is now rarely used in its first meaning ‘to travel… …
3escalate — 01. The argument outside the pub quickly [escalated] into a fistfight. 02. Prices for certain vegetables have [escalated] due to poor weather conditions in California last year. 03. Tensions in the region have [escalated] in the past few months,… …
4violence — noun 1 hurting other people physically ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, excessive, extreme, great, large scale, serious ▪ fresh ▪ There are fears of fresh …
5escalate — verb 1 become/make sth worse ADVERB ▪ quickly, rapidly ▪ gradually, steadily ▪ Violence between the two sides has been steadily escalating. ▪ The risks gradually escalate …
6escalate — UK [ˈeskəleɪt] / US [ˈeskəˌleɪt] verb Word forms escalate : present tense I/you/we/they escalate he/she/it escalates present participle escalating past tense escalated past participle escalated 1) [intransitive/transitive] to become much worse or …
7Violence — For other uses, see Violence (disambiguation). U.N. rates of physical violence resulting in death, per 100,000 inhabitants by country in 2002.[1] …
8escalate — es|ca|late [ˈeskəleıt] v [I and T] [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: escalator] 1.) if fighting, violence, or a bad situation escalates, or if someone escalates it, it becomes much worse escalate into ▪ Her fear was escalating into panic. ▪ The fighting… …
9violence */*/*/ — UK [ˈvaɪələns] / US noun [uncountable] 1) violent behaviour He had endured years of intimidation and violence. an act of senseless violence violence against: a seminar on pornography and violence against women an outbreak of violence (= an… …
10escalate — es|ca|late [ eskə,leıt ] verb 1. ) intransitive or transitive to become, or make something become, much worse or more serious: The tension escalated until it became unbearable. Rebel forces have escalated the fighting. escalate into: Any one of… …
