2. Adjective. Suddenly and rapidly increased ¹
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Definition of Skyrocketed
1. skyrocket [v] - See also: skyrocket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyrocketed
Literary usage of Skyrocketed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Combating Violent Crime: Twenty-Four Recommendations to Strengthen Criminal (1993)
"In the 1960's and early 1970's incarceration rates fell and crime rates skyrocketed.
By contrast, when incarceration rates increased substantially in the ..."
2. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD., Lorents G. (FRW) Lorentsen, OECD Staff (2004)
"... have skyrocketed in the past decade, particularly among children and youth.
Juvenile ltype 1) diabetes, ..."
3. America's Great Depression by Murray Newton Rothbard (2000)
"Production continued to plummet drastically, as did prices and foreign trade,
and unemployment skyrocketed to almost 16 percent of the labor force. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... that he was indifferent even to the presence of the irrepressible American,
who opined that he would rather run the chances of being skyrocketed from ..."
5. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Newton Rothbard (2006)
"It was then that unions skyrocketed from something like five percent to over
twenty percent of the labor force. Furthermore, local and state laws often ..."
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