increase
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin increscere (“to increase”), from in (“in, on”) + crescere (“to grow”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- (verb): enPR: ĭnkrēs’, IPA: /ɪnˈkriːs/, SAMPA: /In"kri:s/
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Audio (US) (file) - (noun): enPR: ĭn'krēs, IPA: /ˈɪnkriːs/, SAMPA: /"Inkri:s/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːs
[edit] Verb
increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)
- (intransitive, of a quantity) to become larger.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
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- (become larger): go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly)
- (make larger): increment, raise, (informal) up
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- (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink
- (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce
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become larger
make larger
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[edit] Noun
increase (plural increases)
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
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- (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage
[edit] Translations
increased amount
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act of becoming larger
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[edit] External links
- increase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- increase in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- increase at OneLook Dictionary Search
