Entry Word: skyrocket

Function: verb

Meaning: to rise abruptly and rapidly <the price of candy bars in the vending machine has skyrocketed over the past few months>

Synonyms rocket, shoot (up), soar, zoom

Related Words accumulate, appreciate, balloon, build (up), burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, snowball, swell, wax; crest, peak, surge; heighten, intensify

Near Antonyms collapse, fall; contract, decrease, diminish, drop, lessen, wane

Antonyms nose-dive, plummet, plunge, slump, tumble