snowball
verb/ˈsnoʊbɔl/
Frequency rank: #10,888 most common English word
Meaning
to grow rapidly in size, intensity, or importance, like a snowball rolling downhill.
Example sentence
What started as minor complaints began to snowball into a major crisis.
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