0 to become or make something become greater or more serious -- （使）增强；（使）扩大；（使）加剧；（使）恶化
The escalating rate of inflation will almost certainly bring escalating prices. 通货膨胀率的不断上升几乎肯定会导致物价攀升。
The decision to escalate UN involvement has been made in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities. 已决定加大联合国介入的力度，以期尽快结束敌对。
His financial problems escalated after he became unemployed. 他失业后，经济问题更是雪上加霜。
This situation created a tense environment in the mill towns which escalated rapidly into strikes on several occasions.
Since 1993, as successive central governments have restrained public spending and taxation, social services departments have experienced escalating demands for support but stringent budgetary constraints.
Once erupted, the riot escalated into a straightforward class battle.
When graphic designers, photographers and illustrators are involved, costs begin to escalate.
The study finds that civil society has flowered, taken over and escalated the struggle and constructed itself into a solid formation of regional resistance.
Instead, there were a set of governing themes that underpinned a number of propaganda initiatives that escalated in intensity as the war progressed.
As these threatening practices accumulate, they make it more likely that eventually a crisis or militarized dispute will occur that escalates to war.
Findings suggested that boys characterized by high activity level and low levels of fear in infancy escalated in both externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
