See skyrocket on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2013 March 14, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-05-16, page 134:",
"text": "Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.",
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"ref": "2022 October 5, Lauren Harby, “What We Know About Celine Dion's Health Battle”, in The List:",
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"ref": "2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 51:",
"text": "The cost of keeping historic machinery operational has skyrocketed.",
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"ref": "2014, Carrie Denny, The Bride's Instruction Manual, page 117:",
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"roman": "uveličavam se mnogo i vnezapno",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "увеличавам се много и внезапно"
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "sulbong"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "飛漲"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "fēizhǎng",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "飞涨"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "平步青雲"
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"roman": "píngbùqīngyún",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "平步青云"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "劇增"
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"roman": "měng zhǎng",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "vyletět nahoru"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "karata"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "nousta pilviin"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"tags": [
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"word": "raketoida"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "grimper en flèche"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "monter en flèche"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "exploser"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "emporschnellen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "hochschnellen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "explodieren"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ektoxévomai",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "εκτοξεύομαι"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "az egekbe szökik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "felszökik"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "andare alle stelle"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "balzare alle stelle"
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"alt": "きゅうとうする",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kyūtō suru",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "急騰する"
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"alt": "ぼうとうする",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "bōtō suru",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "暴騰する"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "ir às alturas"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "elevar-se às alturas"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "podskákivatʹ",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"tags": [
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"word": "подска́кивать"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "podskočítʹ",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"tags": [
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"word": "подскочи́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vzletátʹ",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "взлета́ть"
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vzmyvátʹ",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "взмыва́ть"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzmytʹ",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "взмыть"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"tags": [
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"word": "odleteti u nebesa"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
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"word": "одлетјети у небеса"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "dispararse"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "ponerse por las nubes"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "desbocarse"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "hiperbolizarse"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "exponenciarse"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "skjuta i höjden"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to increase suddenly and extremely",
"word": "stiga våldsamt"
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"word": "skyrocket"
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