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| NOUN | 1 | decrease, lessening, drop-off | A change downward |
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| 2 | decrease, decrement | A process of becoming smaller or shorter | |
| 3 | decrease, decrement | The amount by which something decreases | |
| 4 | decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down | The act of decreasing or reducing something | |
| VERB | 1 | decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | Decrease in size, extent, or range |
| 2 | decrease, lessen, minify | Make smaller |
| Sounds | dihkriy's; diy'kriy.s |
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| Rhymes | altarpiece, apiece, caprice, and 34 more rhymes in iys... |
| Meaning | A change downward. |
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| Examples | "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided" |
| Synonyms | lessening, drop-off |
| Contrary | increase |
| Broader | change, alteration, modification |
| Narrower | shrinking, shrinkage; casualty; sinking; attrition; dwindling, dwindling away; waning |
| Verbs | decrease; decrease |
| Meaning | A process of becoming smaller or shorter. |
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| Synonyms | decrement |
| Contrary | increase, increment, growth |
| Broader | process, physical process |
| Narrower | decay, decline; decline, diminution; desensitization, desensitisation; narrowing; slippage; wastage |
| Verbs | decrease |
| Meaning | The amount by which something decreases. |
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| Synonyms | decrement |
| Contrary | increase, increment |
| Broader | amount |
| Narrower | drop, dip, fall, free fall; shrinkage |
| Verbs | decrease |
| Meaning | The act of decreasing or reducing something. |
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| Synonyms | diminution, reduction, step-down |
| Contrary | increase, step-up |
| Broader | change of magnitude |
| Narrower | cut; moderation, mitigation; lowering; cutback; devaluation; devitalization, devitalisation; extenuation, mitigation, palliation; easing, easement, alleviation, relief; de-escalation; minimization, minimisation; depletion; shortening; shrinking; subtraction, deduction; deflation; discount, price reduction, deduction; rollback; weakening; depreciation; contraction; reverse split, reverse stock split, split down; amortization, amortisation; declassification; tax shelter, shelter; tax credit |
| Verbs | decrease |
| Meaning | Decrease in size, extent, or range. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester" |
| Synonyms | diminish, lessen, fall |
| Contrary | increase |
| Broader | change magnitude |
| Narrower | break; shrink, shrivel; taper; drop off; vanish, fly, vaporize; break; ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag; weaken; boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate; shrink, contract; shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither; abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away; deflate; dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down; remit; de-escalate; depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue; shorten; thin out; decline, go down, wane; wane; wane; decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard; decrescendo |
| Entailed by | scale down |
| Nouns | decrease; decrease; decrease; decrease |
| Meaning | Make smaller. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "He decreased his staff" |
| Synonyms | lessen, minify |
| Contrary | increase |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | mitigate; pare, pare down; limit, circumscribe, confine; reduce, boil down, concentrate; shrink, reduce; abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce; slake, abate, slack; turn down, lower, lour; de-escalate, weaken, step down; minimize, minimise; reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down; cut; slack, slacken, slack up, relax; diminish, belittle |
| Nouns | decrease |
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