Usually means: Increasing or intensifying in severity.
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  1. escalating: Merriam-Webster
  2. escalating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. escalating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Escalating, escalating: Wordnik
  5. escalating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. escalating: Wiktionary
  7. escalating: Dictionary.com
  8. escalating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. escalating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalating: Legal dictionary

(Note: See escalate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (escalate)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
verb:  (transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
verb:  (uncommon) To climb.
verb:  (rare) To move by escalator.
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