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synonyms for escalated

  • expand
  • grow
  • heighten
  • intensify
  • mount
  • raise
  • rise
  • step up
  • widen
  • amplify
  • ascend
  • broaden
  • climb
  • enlarge
  • extend
  • magnify
  • scale
  • make worse

antonyms for escalated

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  • decline
  • decrease
  • diminish
  • drop
  • fall
  • halt
  • lessen
  • lower
  • reduce
  • slow
  • slump
  • stop
  • abridge
  • compress
  • condense
  • contract
  • curtail
  • descend
  • go down
  • shorten
  • shrink
  • weaken
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How to use escalated in a sentence

For more than 15 years domestic spending had soared as Federal programs multiplied, and the expense escalated annually.
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Financial burdens, however, escalated rapidly between 1886 and 1911.
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