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обостре́ние — meaning in English

obostreniye

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English meaning

  • escalation noun A rapid increase in the size, intensity, or seriousness of something.

Senses

обостре́ние is used for these senses in English:

  • escalation A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
  • recrudescence (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.

escalation — full definition

  1. noun A rapid increase in the size, intensity, or seriousness of something.
  2. noun The act of passing a problem to someone with greater authority to resolve it.

Related Russian words