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Escalate vs Rase - What's the difference?

escalate | rase |

As a verb escalate

is to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

As a noun rase is

case.

escalate

English

Verb

(transitive'' and ''intransitive )
  • to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up
    • Violence escalated during the election.
    The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
  • in technical support, to transfer a telephone caller to the next higher level of authority
    • The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.

    Derived terms

    * deescalate

    Related terms

    * escalator English ergative verbs

    rase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scratching out, or erasure
  • A slight wound; a scratch
  • A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it

    • Verb

    (ras)
  • (obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
  • * South
    • Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
  • * Beckford
    • Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
  • (obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
  • * Fuller
    • Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
  • to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
  • * Chapman
    • Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.
  • to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow

    • Anagrams

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