decreaseverb

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to increase
increaseWe need to increase production to meet demand.
growThe number of people living alone grows each year.
risePrices rose by 10 per cent.
go upHouse prices keep going up.
escalateCrime in the city has escalated in recent weeks.
We need to increase public awareness of the disease.我们需要增强公众对这种疾病的认识。
Our main aim is to increase sales by 12% this year.
Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increases.研究表明如果工作环境舒适，生产效率会提高。
Students do find that their workload increases throughout the course.学生们确实发现随着课程的推进他们的作业量越来越大。
Life expectancy in Europe has increased greatly in the 20th century.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulative
accumulatively
add fuel to the fireidiom
blaze
crank
go into orbitidiom
go up
growing
growingly
heighten
inflation
mushroom
ramp something up
ratchet something up/down
re-escalate
re-escalation
reach a crescendo
stake

Examples of increased

increased

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Magnesium increased in the castor bean globoids but remained relatively constant in rice globoids.
Correspondingly, men and women with the greatest burden of childcare responsibilities had increased risk of psychological distress, but this risk was significantly greater for men.
However, if the rate of inflation is increased excessively, real returns will be driven down to the point where credit market frictions become binding.
Since increased canopy reduces the kinetic energy with which raindrops hit the ground, the damage to soil from rainfall is reduced.
The squares are replaced by intermittent hexagonal patterns when the aspect ratio is increased.
The risk for depression was increased in participants who reported a previous poor pregnancy outcome.
The effective number of parties increased significantly and minority governments without stable support in parliament became the standard type of government.
For all farm categories, current acreage increased from 5 years in the past, and farmers predicted further increases in the future.
Above the lower critical radiation, the plasma generates additional heat flux, and the surface temperature is increased.
In general, receptive-field size tended to increase as the depth of the electrode tip increased.
In short, technical change in lowland areas has significantly increased demand for labor on lowland farms.
The effects of climate change (for example) include sea level rises, and increased frequencies of droughts, storms, and extreme temperatures.
Their systems will therefore continue to face an increased cost rate as the dependency rate rises.
These include an increased production of inhibitor-sensitive proteinases, or the synthesis of novel inhibitor-insensitive proteinases.
Concentrations increased substantially thereafter to a maximum, about 100 d later, when tubers were said to be mature.
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