rack sth up
— phrasal verb with rack uk/ræk/us/ræk/verb [ T often passive ]
to gradually get more points, profits, etc.:
He has racked up 450 points in three months.
Astronomical profits/losses were racked up by airlines last year.
Synonym
accumulate
to increase something such as a rent or price, especially by an amount that is considered to be too much:
Our landlord racked up the rent by 15 percent this year.
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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