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decreasesnounpl. of decrease the amount by which something is lessenedthe average decrease in the price of milk was five cents per gallon abatements, declines, decrements, dents, depletions, depressions, diminishments, diminutions, drop-offs, drops, falloffs, falls, losses, reductions, shrinkages, step-downs deductions, subtractionsdownturns, slips, slumpscurtailments, cutbacks, cuts, retrenchments, shortenings boosts, enlargements, gains, increases, increments, raises, rises, step-ups, upticks accretions, accruals, accumulations, additions, supplementscontinuations, extensionsupswings, uptrends, upturns to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentworkers decreased the volume of water flowing through the pipes in order to prevent an overflow abates, de-escalates, dents, depletes, diminishes, downscales, downsizes, drops, dwindles, eases, knocks down, lessens, lowers, reduces compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsabbreviates, abridges, clips, crops, curtails, cuts, cuts back, cuts down, docks, nicks, pares, prunes, retrenches, shortens, slashes, trims, truncates, whittlesdeflates, shrinksminimizesmoderates, modifies, modulates, qualifies aggrandizes, amplifies, augments, boosts, enlarges, escalates, expands, increases, raises blows up, dilates, distends, inflates, swellselongates, extends, lengthens, prolongs, protractsadds (to), complements, supplementsenhances, heightens, intensifiesredoubles to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe force of the wind slowly decreased until the flowers were standing upright again abates, declines, de-escalates, dies (away or down or out), diminishes, drains (away), drops (off), dwindles, eases, ebbs, falls, falls away, lessens, lets up, lowers, moderates, palls, phases down, ratchets (down)also rachets (down), recedes, relents, remits, shrinks, subsides, tapers, tapers off, wanes compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsevaporates, fades (away), fritters (away), gives out, melts (away), peters (out), tails (off), vanishesslackens, slows (down)alleviates, relaxesflags, sinks, weakenscaves (in), collapses, deflates accumulates, balloons, builds, burgeons(also bourgeons), enlarges, escalates, expands, grows, increases, intensifies, mounts, mushrooms, picks up, rises, snowballs, soars, swells, waxes appears, emerges, shows upblows up, distends, elongates, lengthens |