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skyrocket

/ˈskaɪrɒkɪt/verb

उच्चारण स्काइरॉकिट

आसमान छूना, तेज़ी से बहुत बढ़ जाना

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verbskyrocketed, skyrocketing
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    [I]

    (of prices, amounts, etc.) to rise very quickly to a very high level

    आसमान छूना, तेज़ी से बहुत बढ़ जाना

    • Onion prices skyrocketed after the floods.
    • The number of online users has skyrocketed in the last five years.

    Synonyms soar rocket shoot up escalate

    Opposite plummet plunge slump

≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

soar rocket shoot up escalate

Antonyms

plummet plunge slump

§Grammar and usage

Usage: skyrocket is intransitive, so we say 'prices skyrocketed', not 'prices were skyrocketed'.

Usage में skyrocket intransitive verb है, इसलिए 'prices skyrocketed' कहते हैं, 'prices were skyrocketed' नहीं।