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decrease
English
Etymology
From Middle English decresen, discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
Pronunciation
- (verb) enPR: d?kr?s', IPA(key): /d??k?i?s/
- (noun) enPR: d?'kr?s, IPA(key): /?di?k?i?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Verb
decrease (third-person singular simple present decreases, present participle decreasing, simple past and past participle decreased)
- (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
Synonyms
- (become smaller): drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
- (make smaller): abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
Antonyms
- (become larger): go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
- (make larger): increase, increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
Related terms
- decretion
- increase
Translations
Noun
decrease (countable and uncountable, plural decreases)
- An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
- (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
Synonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is decreased): cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage
Antonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is decreased): gain, increase, increment, raise (US, of pay), rise
Translations
Anagrams
- deceaser
decrease From the web:
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nonincrease
English
Etymology
non- +? increase
Noun
nonincrease (uncountable)
- The situation in which something does not increase; a decrease or equilibrium.
nonincrease From the web:
- what is non natural increase in population
- what is natural increase in population
- what causes natural increase in population
- what does natural increase in population mean
- what is natural decrease in population
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