ratchet up
gain
stretch
boost
hike up
hike
extend
plus
increasable
wind up
increasing
step-up
augment
spike up
accrue
advance
appreciate
breadthen
spike
increment
augmentable
reincrease
explode
scale up
pick up
concrescence
explosion
zoom
stepped-up
increasement
centuple
supercharge
rise
bump up
up
accumulative
cumulative
mount
raised
leap
run-up
jump
elevated
climb
go up
auxo-
quantum leap
quantum jump
growing
outbreak
ocker
upscale
oker
jack
spiral
bloat
ramp up
kick up
increasingly
expanded
ramp-up
grow
increasability
hypertrophy
multiplication
more and more
raising
upping
step up
increase
escalate
accelerate
heighten
pullulation
raise
enhance
intensify
prosper
ante-upping
higher
jacked up
double
duplicate
balloon
heap up
increasable
increasing
augmentable
stepped-up
accumulative
cumulative
raised
elevated
expanded
raising
jacked up
increasingly
more and more
increasing
step-up
augment
increment
concrescence
explosion
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increasement
leap
run-up
jump
reincrease
quantum leap
quantum jump
growing
outbreak
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multiplication
advance
rise
upping
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pullulation
ante-upping
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ratchet up
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boost
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hike
extend
plus
wind up
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accrue
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centuple
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ocker
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double
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heap up
verb
verb
- To increase.
- To reach.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- To put on weight.
- To run fast.
- To acquire possession of.
- To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
adj
adv
noun
verb
- To increase.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To increase in extent.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To reenlist for a further period.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- To straighten (a limb).
- Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb
- To increase in magnitude.
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- To improve.
adj
- Electrically positive.
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- Positive, or involving advantage.
prep
conj
noun
verb
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
verb
- To increase (a number or amount).
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- To move forwards; to approach.
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
noun
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
adj
verb
- To increase sharply.
- To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
- To inject a drug with a syringe.
- To fix on a spike.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
noun
- A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- An adolescent male deer.
- A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- Spike lavender.
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- A sort of very large nail.
- An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- Synonym of endpin.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- The casual ward of a workhouse.
- An ear of corn or grain.
noun
- The amount of increase.
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- The waxing of the moon.
- An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
- A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb
verb
- To increase suddenly.
- To destroy with an explosion.
- To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- To destroy violently or abruptly.
- Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- To ejaculate.
- To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- To create an exploded view of.
verb
- get in addition, as an increase
- take and lift upward
- take up by hand
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- gather or collect
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take into custody
- buy casually or spontaneously
- register (perceptual input)
- lift out or reflect from a background
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- gain or regain energy
noun
- a sudden great increase
- a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
- the act of exploding or bursting
- the noise caused by an explosion
- the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
- a sudden outburst
- a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
noun
- A big increase.
- A humming noise from something moving very fast.
- A quick ascent.
- An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
- A video teleconferencing call.
verb
- To zoom climb.
- To move rapidly.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To go up sharply.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
intj
verb
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
verb
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
adj
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
verb
- To increase in quantity or intensity.
- To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
- To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- To sit on a combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
- To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- To have sexual intercourse with someone.
- To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
noun
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).
- A hill or mountain.
- A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
- A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
- A green hillock in the base of a shield.
- Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
noun
- An increase in the value or amount of something.
- I found sand pushed all the way to the edge of my home by the run-up of Wednesday's tsunami.
- The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
- The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
- A period of time just before an important event.
- The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
noun
- a sudden and decisive increase
- an abrupt transition
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
verb
- increase suddenly and significantly
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- make a sudden physical attack on
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
prefix
verb
- To raise or increase.
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To steal something, typically an automobile.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
noun
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- Nothing, jack shit.
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- Money.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A sailor.
- A lumberjack.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A sepoy.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- A home run.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- A jackrabbit.
adj
verb
noun
- A helix.
- A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
- A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
- A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
adj
verb
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
- To cause to become distended.
- To become distended; to swell up.
noun
verb
- To raise, to increase (a price).
- To move sharply upward.
- To function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up.
- To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
- To make more exciting.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, up.
- To pass something up a hierarchy or chain of command.
- To show anger (about something).
- To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
verb
noun
verb
- Grow; increase.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
verb
- increase the level of
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
noun
adj
- Significantly increased or expanded.
- Stimulated, excited.
- Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- Under the influence of stimulants; high.
- Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- Reprehensible; objectionable.
verb
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
adv
noun
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
adj
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
adj
verb
- To increase or expand rapidly.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
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