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decrease

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a level falls/goes down/decreases ▪ Pollution levels have fallen slightly. a number falls/drops/goes down/decreases/declines ▪ The number of new houses being built is falling steadily. a population falls/declines/decreases ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French decreiss- , present participle stem of decreistre , Old French descroistre (12c., Modern French décroître ), from Latin decrescere "to grow less, diminish," from de- "away from" (see de- ) + crescere "to grow" (see crescent ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decrease \De*crease"\, v. t. To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means. That might decrease their present store. --Prior.

Usage examples of decrease.

Several distinct triangular striated prints like those in Archaean slate, proving that source survived from over six hundred million years ago to Comanchian times without more than moderate morphological changes and decrease in average size.

The loss to Brighter Suns was probably colossal, but even at the new, less efficient rate there was still an implausible amount of money flowing in, and the decrease was sure to be short-lived as soon as the Powers could send in more personnel.

If even a fourth of them canceled, she was going to suffer from excess inventory, an unnecessarily large staff, and decreased income.

Studies have shown that the risk of developing certain cancers decreases when you eat ten or more tablespoons a week of tomato or spaghetti sauce.

The decline of HGH with age is directly associated with cardiovascular disease, increased body fat, osteoporosis, gray hair, wrinkles, decreased energy, reduced sexual function, and other symptoms.

The one thing I am disappointed in is to find that the silk-cultivation with all the pretty girls who were engaged in it are transported to Cornuda and other places, -- nearer the railway, I suppose: and to this may be attributed the decrease in the number of inhabitants.

We knew that every day we waited decreased her chances of surviving cryology, but we tried.

It is thought to achieve this in several ways, including making platelets less sticky and decreasing inflammation in the arteries.

By decreasing the inflammation with steroids, you can often decrease the pain associated with the inflammation.

As we turn down the intensity of the light source we now know that we are decreasing the number of photons it emits.

Garden-hose universe in which the radius of the circular dimension is shorter than the Planck length and is decreasing are absolutely identical to physical processes in which the circular dimension is longer than the Planck length and increasing!

Even if you clean your cluttered desk, decreasing its entropy, the total entropy, including that of your body and the air in the room, actually increases.

He got up and used the chamber pot, trying to remember what Xaefyer had said about the recharge time decreasing for the next few months.

Otherwise Chatterford should continue just as it is, the soirees decreasing in frequency until they simply lapse, the entertainment staff being transferred to Joy Hall.

Industrial and tourist development and other economies helped stop the population decreasing on some islands after the 1970s, and selectively it even began to grow again, but the highest numbers reached at the end of the nineteen country and in the first half of the twentieth have not yet been equalled except in Rab, where the population has constantly increased since modern population censuses were introduced in 1857.