escalated
- 1Simple past and past participle of escalate.
What began as a minor disagreement escalated into a full-blown conflict.
The situation had escalated beyond anyone's control by nightfall.
Note
A regular form: escalate drops nothing and simply adds -d, so one spelling serves as both past tense and participle. Because the verb works with or without an object, it can report a situation growing on its own (talks escalated) or someone driving it (they escalated the dispute). In technical support it always takes an object and reads naturally in the passive: a complaint is escalated to a supervisor.
The protesters' demands escalated the standoff into a national crisis.
After two failed fixes, her ticket was escalated to the senior engineering team.
escalated is a form of escalate
escalate, verb: To increase something in extent or intensity; to make a situation more serious or intense. Full entry
- Forms
- escalateescalates he/she/itescalating -ing formescalated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- escalate → escalated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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