escalating

Definitions

Increasing rapidly in intensity, magnitude, or extent.

Rising or becoming more serious, complex, or aggressive.

Examples

The escalating tension between the two countries has led to increased military presence at the border.

She felt a sense of panic as the escalating costs of the renovation began to exceed her budget.

Synonyms

intensifying increasing mounting growing surging expanding heightening

Antonyms

decreasing diminishing lessening reducing abating declining subsiding