escalate

"My friend told me there was something in the box, but I didn't know what it was yet. "

"Every person who passes by is a potential customer."

"My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us."

"to intensify a photographic negative"

"The problem with the project is that the current design flaws are already existing. "

"The farmer used his technical for transporting supplies to the fields. "

"The intensity of the music made it hard to concentrate on my homework. "

"The increase in homework assignments this week was significant. "

"I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them."

"The archer practiced shooting arrows at the target. "

"The shooting escalated the existing hostility."

"The transfer of the student to a different class was announced in a school memo. "