push sth up/down
— phrasal verb with push uk/pʊʃ/us/pʊʃ/verb
to cause the amount, number, or value of something to increase or be reduced:
Rising demand tends to push prices up, and falling demand pushes them down.
The rise in interest rates has pushed up the value of my investments.
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
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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Becoming and making smaller or less