The act of increasing or rising

• upturn

  1. To turn up or over:
  2. To upset; overturn.
  3. To direct upward:

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• upswing

  1. An upward swing or trend.
  2. An increase, as in movement or business activity.

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• upsurge

  1. To surge up.
  2. A rapid or abrupt rise:

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• swell

  1. To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
  2. To increase in force, size, number, or degree:
  3. To grow in loudness or intensity:

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• rise

  1. To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
  2. To get out of bed:
  3. To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend:

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• raise

  1. To move to a higher position; elevate:
  2. To set in an upright or erect position:
  3. To erect or build:

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• proliferation

  1. (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  2. (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  3. (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

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• jump

  1. To propel oneself upward or over a distance in single quick motion or series of such motions.
  2. To move suddenly and in one motion:
  3. To move involuntarily, as in surprise:

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• increase

  1. To become greater or larger.
  2. To multiply; reproduce.
  3. To make greater or larger.

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• hike

  1. To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
  2. To rise, especially to rise upward out of place:
  3. To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly:

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• growth

  1. The process of growing.
  2. Full development; maturity.
  3. Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.

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• escalation

  1. an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy
  2. a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict

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• enlargement

  1. An act of enlarging or the state of being enlarged.
  2. Something that enlarges; an addition.
  3. Something that has been enlarged, especially a photographic reproduction or a copy larger than the original print or negative.

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• buildup

  1. The act or process of amassing or increasing:
  2. The result of building up:
  3. Widely favorable publicity, especially by a systematic campaign:

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• boost

  1. To raise or lift by pushing up from below.
  2. To increase; raise:
  3. To assist in further development or progress:

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• augmentation

  1. The act or process of augmenting.
  2. The condition of being augmented.
  3. Something that augments.

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• augment

  1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity:
  2. To add an augment to.
  3. To become augmented.

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• amplification

  1. The act or result of amplifying, enlarging, or extending.
  2. An addition to or expansion of a statement or idea.
  3. A statement with such an addition.

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• aggrandizement

  1. The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.

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The result or product of building up

• proliferation

  1. (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  2. (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  3. (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

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• enlargement

  1. An act of enlarging or the state of being enlarged.
  2. Something that enlarges; an addition.
  3. Something that has been enlarged, especially a photographic reproduction or a copy larger than the original print or negative.

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• development

  1. The application of techniques or technology to the production of new goods or services.
  2. The business of constructing buildings or otherwise altering land for new uses.
  3. A significant event, occurrence, or change:

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• buildup

  1. The act or process of amassing or increasing:
  2. The result of building up:
  3. Widely favorable publicity, especially by a systematic campaign:

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• accretion

  1. Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion.
  2. Something contributing to such growth or increase:
  3. The growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate.

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The process by which an organism produces others of its kind

• increase

  1. To become greater or larger.
  2. To multiply; reproduce.
  3. To make greater or larger.

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• spawning

  1. Present participle of spawn.

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• reproduction

  1. The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
  2. Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original:
  3. The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.

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• propagation

  1. Multiplication or increase, as by natural reproduction.
  2. The process of spreading to a larger area or greater number; dissemination.
  3. The act or process of propagating, especially the process by which a disturbance, such as the motion of electromagnetic or sound waves, is transmitted through a medium such as air or water.

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• proliferation

  1. (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  2. (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  3. (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

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• procreation

  1. The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind
  2. The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring

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• breeding

  1. One's line of descent; ancestry:
  2. Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
  3. The production of offspring or young:

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