upsurgenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʌp.sɜːdʒ/us/ˈʌp.sɝːdʒ/a sudden and usually large increase in something:
An upsurge of/in violence in the district has been linked to increased unemployment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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