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Synonyms for increase
ɪnˈkris; ˈɪn krisin·crease
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
increase
To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.
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add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, enlarge, extend, join on, make up, subjoin, sum upAntonyms:
abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdrawPreposition:
Other items are to be added to the account.
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Princeton's WordNet
addition, increase, gainnoun
a quantity that is added
"there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
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add-on, profit, improver, summation, amplification, growth, increment, addition, accession, step-up, plus, gainAntonyms:
lessening, diminution, decrement, drop-off, reduction, decrease, step-down, diminish, lessen, fall, minifyincreasenoun
a change resulting in an increase
"the increase is scheduled for next month"
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addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
decrease, decrement, reduction, step-down, lessening, diminution, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminishincrease, increment, growthnoun
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
"the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
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ontogenesis, gain, growth, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-upAntonyms:
drop-off, decrease, reduction, decrement, step-down, lessening, diminution, diminish, fall, lessen, minifyincrease, incrementnoun
the amount by which something increases
"they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare"
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addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
decrease, decrement, reduction, diminution, step-down, drop-off, lessening, diminish, fall, lessen, minifyincrease, step-upverb
the act of increasing something
"he gave me an increase in salary"
Synonyms:
addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
lessening, decrease, step-down, decrement, diminution, reduction, drop-off, fall, minify, lessen, diminishincreaseverb
become bigger or greater in amount
"The amount of work increased"
Antonyms:
decrement, diminution, step-down, decrease, reduction, lessening, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminishincreaseverb
make bigger or more
"The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"
Antonyms:
step-down, drop-off, decrement, decrease, diminution, lessening, reduction, minify, lessen, fall, diminish
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increaseverb
Synonyms:
grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or largerincreaseverb
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multiply, be fruitfulincreaseverb
Synonyms:
augment, enlarge, make greater, make largerincreaseverb
increaseverb
increaseverb
increasenoun
Synonyms:
augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, incrementincreasenoun
increasenoun
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offspring, issue, progeny, descendants
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
increasenoun
Synonyms:
augmentation, accretion, increment, accession, amplification, addition, accrumentincreaseverb
Synonyms:
augment, advance, enlarge, multiply, be prolific, wax, aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify, magnify, heighten, accelerate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "increase":
rise, increasing, increased, enhance, growth, raise, increases, improve, grow, strengthen, increment, expand, augment, enhancing, boost, raising, surge, intensify, augmentation, growing, expansion, strengthening, rising, enhancement, improving, greater, upsurge, heighten, reinforce, enhanced, progression, broaden, improvement, escalation, 'augmentation, extend, hike, further, more, expanding, redouble, intensification, higher, additional, augmenting, mark-up, build, widen, add, enlarge, rises, multiply
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How to use increase in a sentence?
The Republican proposal has put oxygen in the room for progressives to go on offense with real solutions that provide health care to everyone, increase quality, and reduce costs -- like Medicare for all or a public option offered to every American, if Democrats learned the right lesson from 2016, they won't just depend on a negative message but instead pivot to bold inspiring ideas like Medicare for all.
We're very concerned about state Medicaid budgets, and how they would handle the increase.
We have known that plastic production has increased, and although there are a number of studies that have shown increased concentrations of plastic up to the 1990s, these studies have not been able to demonstrate the expected increase in plastics in open ocean surface waters.
These are political decisions to increase leverage. They are no indications that Iran is about to dash to a bomb or pursue nuclear weapons.
I think Trump is trying to overcompensate for the fact that Jeb was a successful pro-life, tax-cutting, small-government conservative governor, while he was a liberal New York socialite advocating for partial birth abortion, the biggest tax increase in American history and socialized health care.
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