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Increase

n. [the act of making or becoming greater in quantity]

increase

n. a change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month"

increase, increment

n. the amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare"

increase, step-up

n. the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"

increase, increment, growth

n. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"

increase

v. make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"

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emergence, outgrowth, growth

n. the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification

n. bringing again into activity and prominence; "the revival of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the Gothic revival in architecture"

rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising

n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce

n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"

rush

n. a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"

epidemic

n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

reproduction

n. the process of generating offspring

proliferate

v. cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"

leap, jump

v. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"

increase

v. become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"

gyrate, spiral, coil

v. to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

corkscrew, spiral

v. move in a spiral or zigzag course

swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

swell

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

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Decrease

n. [the act of making or becoming smaller in quantity]

decrease, lessening, drop-off

n. a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"

attrition

n. a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"

decrease, decrement

n. the amount by which something decreases

drop, dip, fall, free fall

n. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down

n. the act of decreasing or reducing something

cut

n. the act of reducing the amount or number; "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget"

tax write-off, tax deduction, deduction

n. a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket

subtraction, deduction

n. the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"

decrease, decrement

n. a process of becoming smaller or shorter

decrease, decrement

n. a process of becoming smaller or shorter

diminution

n. the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

decay, decline

n. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

decrease, lessen, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

slake, abate, slack

v. make less active or intense

cut

v. shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of; "cut my hair"

foreshorten

v. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

turn down

v. take a downward direction; "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"

minimize, minimise

v. make small or insignificant; "Let's minimize the risk"

pare, pare down

v. decrease gradually or bit by bit

shrink, reduce

v. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

reduce, scale down

v. make smaller; "reduce an image"

reduce, boil down, concentrate

v. cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

clip, curtail, cut short

v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

flatten, drop

v. lower the pitch of (musical notes)

relieve, lighten

v. alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"

sink, drop, drop down

v. fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees"

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