0 to make something more forceful or extreme:
With talks at a standstill, each side had dialled up the rhetoric.
Hurricane Ivan dialled up its ferocity as it squeezed through the narrow channel that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico.
The new test will only dial up the stress factor.
The two teams dialed up the intensity in anticipation of a potential playoff matchup.
By dialing up the financial pressure, the company will be forced to answer difficult questions.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
dial sth up
