Extend vs Escalate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between extend and escalate

is that extend is to increase in extent while escalate is to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

(en verb)

To increase in extent.

To possess a certain extent.

To cause to increase in extent.

To cause to last for a longer period of time.

To straighten (a limb).

To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

to extend sympathy to the suffering

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

to extend liquors

(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widen

* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extent

(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.

* deescalate