| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal : beef up. See INCREASE. 2. To move from a lower to a higher position: arise, ascend, climb, lift, mount, rise. See RISE. 3. To rise abruptly and precipitously: rocket, sky, skyrocket. Informal : shoot up. See INCREASE.
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