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increase
English
Alternative forms
- encrease (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English increse, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of incresc?, from in (“in, on”) + cresc? (“grow”).
The verb is from Middle English incresen, encresen.
Pronunciation
- (verb): enPR: ?nkr?s?, IPA(key): /?n?k?i?s/
- (noun): enPR: ?n?kr?s, IPA(key): /??nk?i?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
- Hyphenation: in?crease
Verb
increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
- The waters increased and bare up the ark.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
Synonyms
- (become larger): wax, go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
- (make larger): increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
- (multiply by production of young): proliferate, propagate, teem
- (to show more of the surface): wax
Antonyms
- (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
- (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
- (multiply by production of young):
- (to show more of the surface): wane
Derived terms
- increasable
- Increase
Translations
Noun
increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
- Offspring, progeny
- (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
Synonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is increased): gain, increment, raise (US, said of pay), rise; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:acquisition
- (act or process of becoming larger): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
Antonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage; See also Thesaurus:decrement
- (act or process of becoming larger): decline, decrease, diminishment; See also Thesaurus:diminution
Translations
Further reading
- increase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- increase in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- increase at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Cairenes, Ceresian, cerasine, resiance
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spawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Verb
spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)
- (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth in general.
- The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
- (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Noun
spawn (plural spawn or spawns)
- The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
- Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
- (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
- (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Derived terms
- hellspawn
Translations
Anagrams
- WPANs, pawns
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