Escalate
Form
Form verb - To take on a definite form.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He didn't escalate the situation to its current form by actually BEING truly reasonable.
- However, as her captivity draws on, physical and emotional abuse against her begins to escalate and the abuse her friends undergo trying to save her gets worse, eventually culminating with her complete breakdown when Ulquiorra's threat level forces Ichigo into a monstrous form to try and save her.
Source: Defiant Captive - On the other hand, the sheer number of legends introduced kept going up until Generation five, which did not escalate the number, though it more than doubled the number of form shifting legends and another that surpassed Mewtwo in stat total, in two different ways but was still lower than Arceus.
Source: Plot Leveling
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