non-escalating

verb (used with or without object), es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing.

1. to increase in intensity, magnitude, etc.: to escalate a war; a time when prices escalate.
2. to raise, lower, rise, or descend on or as if on an escalator.

verb

1. to increase or be increased in extent, intensity, or magnitudeto escalate a war; prices escalated because of inflation

v.1922, back-formation from escalator, replacing earlier verb escalade (1801), from the noun escalade. Escalate came into general use with a figurative sense of “raise” after 1959 in reference to the possibility of nuclear war. Related: Escalated; escalating.