increase

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to become smaller or less
decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment.
lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease.
lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join.
reduceThey've just reduced the price.
bring downThey are bringing down their prices.
dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.
During the 1980s, the amount of ozone in the stratosphere above Europe decreased by about 8%.
Total unemployment has decreased in the past year.
The pop star's popularity decreased as he got older, which is only to be expected.
The government proposed decreasing the annual expenditure on arms.
To make the sleeve get narrower toward the cuff, you gradually decrease the number of stitches on your needle.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
fall away
halve
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
retreat
trough
tumble
decrease
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈdiː.kriːs/ us /ˈdiː.kriːs/
B1
a reduction: 减少；下降；降低
decrease inThere has been a steady decrease in the number of visitors.来访者数量持续减少。
I haven't noticed much decrease in interest.我并未发现人们的兴趣有大幅下降的趋势。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

the fact of getting smaller or becoming less
decreaseThere has been a steady decrease in the number of visitors.
fallA fall in the price of petrol is unlikely.
fall-offThere's been a sharp fall-off in demand for the product since the company's scandal broke.
falling-offThere has been a slight falling-off in public sector employment growth.
There was a slight decrease in his weight after a week of dieting.经过一周的节食之后，他的体重略有减轻。
Any decrease in tourism could have a serious effect on the local economy.
The report's finding on the decrease in violent crime supports the police chief's claims.这份报告关于暴力犯罪减少这一现象的结论证实了警察局长的说法。
We have seen a marked decrease in the number of accidents since these safety measures were introduced.
We've noticed a steady decrease in jobs available for new graduates in the industry.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
fall away
halve
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
retreat
trough
tumble

decrease | American Dictionary

decrease
verb[ I/T ]
us/dɪˈkris, ˈdi·kris/
to become smaller or make something less:
[ I ]Car sales decreased sharply this year.

decrease

noun[ C ]us/ˈdi·kris, dɪˈkris/
I haven’t noticed any decrease in ticket sales.

decrease | Business English

decrease
verb[ I or T ]
uk /dɪˈkriːs/us
to become less, or to make something become less:
decrease in value/price/amountWhen an investment increases or decreases in value but we do not sell it, we record an unrealized gain or loss.
decrease by 10%/10 points, etc.The country's total exports decreased by 6% in 2009.
The company has introduced various strategies to decrease production costs.
decrease significantly/dramatically/rapidly
decrease gradually/slightly/slowly
decrease
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈdiːkriːs/us
the process of something becoming less, or the amount by which something becomes less:
Florida is not the only state to experience decreases in revenues.
a decrease of 10%/10 points, etc.Sales were $640 million for the quarter, a decrease of 11%.
a marked/significant/dramatic decrease
a slight/gradual/steady decrease

Examples of decrease

decrease
Concurrent with habitat loss is the decreasing numbers of wild animals, particularly carnivores, in many countries.
However, these markets appear to have followed the larger trend towards consolidation, with total market numbers decreasing.
Transitions that occur while is increasing yield the trans product ; those that occur while is decreasing, the cis product.
The working time for the pollution reports has decreased since its introduction.
Changes to public health nursing services may be related to the decreases in population to physician ratios.
Finally, we also observe that the electron temperature at breakdown decreases as the second ionization coefficient and the cathode increases.
We also note from (14) that the electron temperature at breakdown decreases as the parameter pd associated with gas pressure and system dimension increases.
Rapidly decreasing separation between adjacent bifurcation points did not allow the identification of higher periodicities.
As 2 decreases, the amplitude of the soliton is enhanced.
If p c, the spectrum shape has a falling form : the first harmonic is maximum, then the amplitude decreases as n increases.
They found that the amplitude of the dust-acoustic soliton structures decreases significantly with an increase in the dust streaming velocity.
In opening up the torus, the non-circularity of the cross section is assumed small and decreasing to zero with increasing diameter of the torus.
As f falls below unity p0 /f 2 increases and 0 f decreases.
The amplitude of these wave packets is also determined by initial conditions, and decreases with (38b).
However, for higher-order radial modes it falls off as the overlap of the interacting wave functions decreases.
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Collocations withdecrease

decrease

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corresponding decrease
As a result, for two-way coupling we observe a slight increase in particle concentration in the core, with a correspondingdecrease in the braids.
dramatic decrease
There is evidence of an almost complete abandonment of urban construction and a dramaticdecrease in population during that time.
drastic decrease
In healthy women, circulating ghrelin exhibited a drastic decrease after the food intake whereas, in bulimic patients, this response was significantly blunted.
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