What are some opposite words for escalate?
Antonyms for escalate
ˈɛs kəˌleɪtes·ca·late
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escalate, intensify, step upverb
increase in extent or intensity
"The Allies escalated the bombing"
Antonyms:
de-escalate, step down, weakenSynonyms:
come forward, rev up, compound, step to the fore, come to the fore, step forward, heighten, come out, step up, intensify, deepen
How to use escalate in a sentence?
You're never going to help the situation, and it will probably just escalate it.
Political, community and religious leaders on all sides should work together and not allow extremists to escalate the situation and take control of the political agenda.
I think this is our first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria, and as a result of that we had a very lengthy discussion regarding other areas in Syria that we can continue to work together on to de-escalate the areas.
Instead of that same resource officer who had helped before, they sent Reynaldo Contreras, the officer had a hostile demeanor and was not prepared to deal with a mental health crisis ... (the incident) continued to escalate. (Warren) was within his rights to reject the services of this law enforcement officer.
We need to repeat 2020 in terms of emission reductions while achieving economic growth, we really need to escalate annual emissions reductions ; we can't have any more years of emissions growth.
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