climb vs escalate

climb

verb
  • to practise the sport of climbing 

  • To mount; to move upwards on. 

  • To move to a higher position on the social ladder. 

  • to jump high 

  • Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. 

  • To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. 

  • To scale; to get to the top of something. 

  • To ascend; rise; to go up. 

noun
  • The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. 

  • An upwards struggle 

  • An act of climbing. 

escalate

verb
  • To climb. 

  • To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. 

  • In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority 

How often have the words climb and escalate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )