ratchet (sth)↔up

ˌratchet (sth)↔ˈupto increase, or make sth increase, repeatedly and by small amounts（使）逐渐小幅增长Overuse of credit cards has ratcheted up consumer debt to unacceptable levels.滥用信用卡使消费债务逐渐增加到了难以接受的地步。

• asymmetry
• lythraceous
• levotropic cleavage
• tachist
• the first reading
• PINC
• escas
• wash down
• nonambiguity
• up to a point
• pars
• ganas
• pf.
• auroral line
• strike an attitude
• renfrews
• post card
• keelboatman
• favour
• disinflationary
• franzhiser
• podalic
• lymph
• chicha
• matricides
• amazonians
• horseshoe arch
• allophasis
• thistlelike
• politesse
• on behalf of
• management of leased firm
• Perceval
• sightable
• wangle something out of someone
• beeriness
• efficacy, efficies
• caravelled
• stress ratio
• rarefications
• half-lined
• zanyism
• Hyder, Ali
• ribband
• foreign-flag
• adrenoreceptor
• redeemably
• wallys
• central control unit
• raise an elbow
• nonclassical
• religious house
• in bounds / out of bounds
• redact
• renownedly
• unbridle
• escarpment
• gauge the velocity of a political wind with a wetted finger
• tinwork
• popped
• tetrakis phosphonium chloride
• first-order transition
• pigeoned
• Syncephalastraceae
• subbranch
• parasitic elements
• pushdown stack
• antifeminism
• pair of compasses
• Argand lamp
• declinature
• zero-shifting technique
• Forssmann, Werner
• transpersonal
• ceiling price
• shinney
• addicted to
• middle-agedly
• Keaton, Buster
• melanizations
• army of occupation
• council
• grid suppressor
• require
• scratchy
• dog ship
• dogmatical
• cellulose propionate
• gonadoblastomas
• stertor
• the unwashed
• shower meteor
• gyroscopic horizon
• panicky
• polyphonic prose
• ionic potential
• armenite
• tmos
• MSMs
• natalias