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in⋅crease

  [v. in-krees; n. in-krees] verb, -creased, -creas⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
–verb (used without object)
2. to become greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality: Sales of automobiles increased last year.
3. to multiply by propagation.
4. to wax, as the moon.
–noun
5. growth or augmentation in numbers, size, strength, quality, etc.: the increase of crime.
6. the act or process of increasing.
7. that by which something is increased.
8. the result of increasing.
9. produce of the earth.
10. product; profit; interest.
11. Obsolete.
a. multiplication by propagation; production of offspring.
b. offspring; progeny.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME incresen, encresen < AF encres-, MF encreiss-, s. of encreistre < L incrēscere, equiv. to in- in- 2 + crēscere to grow; see crescent

Related forms:
in⋅creas⋅a⋅ble, adjective
in⋅creas⋅ed⋅ly  [in-kree-sid-lee] , adverb

Synonyms:
1. expand, extend, prolong. Increase, augment, enlarge may all mean to make larger. To increase means to make greater, as in quantity, extent, degree: to increase someone's salary; to increase the velocity; to increase the (degree of) concentration. Enlarge means to make greater in size, extent, or range: to enlarge a building, a business, one's conceptions. Augment, a more formal word, means to make greater, esp. by addition from the outside: to augment one's income (by doing extra work). 3. expand, grow, develop, swell. 6. enlargement, expansion.

Antonyms:
1, 3. decrease.
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Word Origin & History

increase  (v.)
c.1315, from Anglo-Fr. encress-, from O.Fr. encreiss-, prp. stem of encreistre, from L. increscere "to increase," from in- "in" + crescere "to grow" (see crescent). L. spelling restored 15c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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