rocket
verb/ˈrɒkɪt/
/ˈrɑːkɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rocket | /ˈrɒkɪt/ /ˈrɑːkɪt/ |
| he / she / it rockets | /ˈrɒkɪts/ /ˈrɑːkɪts/ |
| past simple rocketed | /ˈrɒkɪtɪd/ /ˈrɑːkɪtɪd/ |
| past participle rocketed | /ˈrɒkɪtɪd/ /ˈrɑːkɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form rocketing | /ˈrɒkɪtɪŋ/ /ˈrɑːkɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to increase very quickly and suddenly synonym shoot up
- rocketing prices
- Unemployment has rocketed up again.
- The total has rocketed from 376 to 532.
- Sales have rocketed by 213 percent.
- They were forced to move out because of the rocketing crime rate.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move very fast
- The car rocketed out of a side street.
- [intransitive, transitive] to achieve or to make somebody/something achieve a successful position very quickly
- rocket (somebody/something) to something The band rocketed to stardom with their first single.
- [transitive] rocket something to attack a place with rockets
Word Originverb early 17th cent.: from French roquette, from Italian rocchetto, diminutive of rocca ‘distaff (for spinning)’, with reference to its cylindrical shape.
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