escalates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of escalate.
A minor dispute often escalates when both sides refuse to back down.
The help desk escalates urgent tickets to a senior engineer within minutes.
Note
One spelling serves two jobs. With no object, a quarrel or a war simply grows on its own: the conflict escalates overnight. With an object, someone drives the growth: the union escalates its demands. Help-desk English adds its own transitive use, in which an agent escalates a ticket or a customer to the next tier of authority. Two rarer uses, climbing and riding an escalator, sit at the edges.
escalates 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 → escalates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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