pushsomethingup/down
phrasal verbwithpushverbuk/pʊʃ/us/pʊʃ/
tocausetheamount,number, orvalueof something toincreaseor bereduced:
Risingdemandtendstopushpricesup, andfallingdemandpushesthem down.
Theriseininterestrateshaspushedup thevalueof myinvestments.
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fireidiom
- additive
- blaze
- crank
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- inflation
- mushroom
- redouble
- resurge
- rocket
- saturation
- scalesomethingup
- stake
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Becoming and making smaller or less