decrease
verb/dɪˈkɹiːs/
Etymology
From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.
- derived from decrescere
- derived from descreistre
- inherited from decresen
Definitions
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
- The quality of our products has decreased since the main designer left.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
- Let's decrease the volume a little so we can hear each other talking.
An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
- After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
- One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years.
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A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to…
A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
The neighborhood
- synonymfall
- synonymgo down
- synonymplummet
- synonymplunge
- synonymreduce
- synonymshrink
- synonymsink
- synonymcut
- synonymdecrement
- synonymlower
- synonymdecrease
- synonymdiminish
- antonymgo upantonym(s) of
- antonymgrow
- antonymincrease
- antonymrise
- antonymsoar
- antonymshoot up
- antonymincrement
- antonymraise
- antonymup
- antonymgainantonym(s) of “amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased”
- neighbordecrescendo
- neighbordecretion
- neighborincrease
- neighborhappen
- neighborplummet
- neighborplunge
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for decrease. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA