skyrocketing
飙升,飙升的,猛涨的,猛涨
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Definitions
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- : a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- : Also called scarlet gilia. a plant, Ipomopsis aggregata, of the phlox family, native to western North America, having finely divided leaves and clusters of red, trumpet-shaped flowers.
- : an organized group cheer, usually led by a cheerleader, as at a football or basketball game, which begins with a hissing or whistling and ends with a shout.
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- : to rise or increase rapidly or suddenly, especially to unexpected or unprecedented levels: Prices skyrocketed during the war.
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- : to cause to rise or increase rapidly and usually suddenly: Economic changes have skyrocketed prices.
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Examples
We said, if we basically pay you enough to do it at the same time consistently over and over again for a month, we’re going to see this skyrocket in terms of habit formation.
When a company that most people have written off more or less for dead suddenly sees its stock price skyrocket by nearly 180% for no apparent reason, it’s the kind of thing that catches one’s attention.
Without a dedicated and proactive rescue force, campaigners fear, the death toll in the Mediterranean will skyrocket.
They endure further torment as rates of rape, domestic violence and early marriage skyrocket in times of crisis.
With an increase in opioid prescriptions starting in the early 2000s, overdoses in the U.S. began to skyrocket.
When he mentions a product on his show, its sales skyrocket.
And we are all paying the costs as obesity-related health-care expenses skyrocket.
But in none of his stories did Alger ever portray a tougher background or give it a bigger skyrocket finish.
This abortive attempt to make a skyrocket out of Lindsley's cabin wrought only good to Emilia at first.
A skyrocket moves in the same kind of a path, and so does a stone, a bullet, or any other object hurled through the air.
It had for some mysterious reason glibly identified as reaction burst into fragments and vanished in a skyrocket chaos.
The German submarine seemed to soar in the air like a skyrocket, and came down in a thousand pieces.