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Skyrocket vs Escalate - What's the difference?

skyrocket | escalate |

As verbs the difference between skyrocket and escalate

is that skyrocket is to increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike while escalate is to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

As a noun skyrocket

is a type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.

skyrocket

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia skyrocket)
  • A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
  • (by extension) A rebuke, a scolding.
  • (rhyming slang) Pocket.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=David S. Senchina , title=Athletics and Herbal Supplements , volume=101, issue=2, page=134 , magazine= citation , passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}
    The shortage caused prices to skyrocket .

    Antonyms

    * plummet

    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