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 increasing

increasing

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

I think there are encouraging developments in technology that are permitting developed countries to 'do more with less', and increasing incentives to do so.
The parallel to phasing out or reducing quantities in tradable permits can be mimicked by increasing the tax.
Opportunity for increasing nitrogen use efficiency from improved lowland rice germplasm.
More recently however, increasing attention has been paid to the psychological aspects of space.
There is an increasing need for assessments of the status of monkey populations both within and outside protected areas.
The maximum position of the bremsstrahlung radiation cross-section gets closer to the target ion with increasing nonideal-plasma parameter.
As the stimulus became larger, more long-range axons were recruited into the collective oscillation, thereby increasing the gain of the feedback circuit.
Increasing the size of a spot within the receptive-field center of the relay cell will thus result both in enhanced excitatory and inhibitory input.
There is an increasing desire in many parts of the world to balance their roles in enhancing food webs and reducing yields.
It should however be noted that for increasing shear stresses the suspended load will become more important.
Rather, material structure is progressively broken up by increasing shear stresses.
Fertility could be triggered by photoperiod together with increasing temperatures.
Answering these questions will be key to increasing adoption of biologically integrated farming systems.
The increasing failure rate property of consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.
Countries are facing this challenge in many different ways, but one common factor is the increasing reliance on electronics and systems.
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