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decreasenoun the amount by which something is lessenedthe average decrease in the price of milk was five cents per gallon abatement, decline, decrement, dent, depletion, depression, diminishment, diminution, drop, drop-off, fall, falloff, loss, reduction, shrinkage, step-down deduction, subtractiondownturn, slip, slumpcurtailment, cut, cutback, retrenchment, shortening boost, enlargement, gain, increase, increment, raise, rise, step-up, uptick accretion, accrual, accumulation, addition, supplementcontinuation, extensionupswing, uptrend, upturn to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentworkers decreased the volume of water flowing through the pipes in order to prevent an overflow abate, de-escalate, dent, deplete, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe force of the wind slowly decreased until the flowers were standing upright again abate, decline, de-escalate, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down)also rachet (down), recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen v.decrease, lessen, diminish, reduce, abate, dwindle mean to grow or make less.decrease suggests a progressive decline in size, amount, numbers, or intensity.slowly decreased the amount of pressure lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number.has been unable to lessen her debt diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its subtraction from a total.his visual acuity has diminished reduce implies a bringing down or lowering.you must reduce your caloric intake abate implies a reducing of something excessive or oppressive in force or amount.the storm abated dwindle implies progressive lessening and is applied to things growing visibly smaller.their provisions dwindled slowly in the 14th century |