increase verb [intransitive] to become larger in number, amount, price, or value:
• Last year, the number of burglaries increased by 15 percent.
• The percentage of households with a computer increased from 32.9% to 52%.
• The world's population is increasing at a rate of 91 million people each year.
• Land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years. (=by a surprisingly large amount)
• The ratio of women to men in management positions has been increasing steadily. (=more women are becoming managers)

rise/go up verb [intransitive] phrasal verb to increase. Rise and go up are used especially about numbers, prices or temperatures. They can also be used about the level or standard of something:
• Fuel prices rose by over 10 percent.
• Last month unemployment went up from 1.6 million to just over 1.7 million.
• Crime rates have risen sharply in inner city areas. (=they have increased by a large amount in a short time)
• World demand for oil is rising steadily at around 2 percent a year.
• Sea temperatures have been rising gradually over the past 30 years.
• Living standards have gone up dramatically. (=by a surprisingly large amount)
STUDY NOTE: Grammar
Rise is more formal than go up.
If you want to say that something 'has increased', you can say that it is up, for example: Profits are up by almost 50%.

grow verb [intransitive] to increase, especially gradually over a period of time. Grow is used about numbers or amounts, or about the total amount of business or trade:
• The volume of traffic on our roads continues to grow.
• The economy is growing by about 2.5% a year.
• Since 1990, U.S. imports of foreign goods have grown at a rate of 7.7 percent per year.

double/triple/quadruple verb [intransitive] to become twice as much, three times as much, or four times as much:
• Since 1950, the number of people dying from cancer has almost doubled.
• During the last 15 years, earnings have tripled for men and doubled for women.
• The production of maize quadrupled.

expand verb [intransitive] to become larger in size, or to include a wider range of activities:
• After two years of no growth, the economy started to expand again in 2003.
• The report estimates that up to 40,000 plants could die out if the population expands from 6 billion to 8 billion by 2020, as currently predicted.

soar verb [intransitive] to increase and reach a very high level. Soar is used about numbers and amounts, or about people's feelings and attitudes, and is especially used in journalism:
• Interest rates soared to over 100 percent.
• The rumours sent house prices soaring. (=made them increase to a very high level)
• The president's popularity soared. (=he became extremely popular)

escalate verb [intransitive] to increase to a high level. Escalate is used about things that you do not want to increase such as costs, crimes, or violence:
• Energy costs have escalated.
• The violence began to escalate and the demonstrators started attacking the police.
STUDY NOTE: Grammar
The -ing forms of many of these verbs can also be used as adjectives, for example: • the increasing demand for cheap goods
• rising unemployment
• the growing problem of industrial pollution
• soaring inflation
• escalating fuel costs

rocket (up) 飞速上升 If a price or amount rockets, it increases quickly and suddenly.
Profits for 1991-92 have jumped £2m to £13.6m and its pubs total has rocketed from 376 to 532.

shoot up 暴涨 If something shoots up, it grows or increases very quickly.
Sales shot up by 9% last month.