Synonyms for decreasing
de·creas·ing

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1. decreasingadjective

   becoming less or smaller

   Antonyms:
   incorporative, increasing, accretive, accelerative, maximizing, accelerando, acceleratory, multiplicative, raising, profit-maximizing, augmentative, profit-maximising, progressive, accretionary, maximising, crescendo

2. decreasingadjective

   music

   Antonyms:
   acceleratory, raising, accelerando, progressive, augmentative, incorporative, maximizing, maximising, accretionary, crescendo, accelerative, profit-maximising, profit-maximizing, multiplicative, increasing, accretive

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1. decreasingadjective

   Synonyms:
   decrescent, diminishing, waning

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1. List of paraphrases for "decreasing":

   declining, diminishing, descending, reducing, decrease, falling, decline, lowering, dwindling, subsiding, reduce, downward, shrinking, reduction

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1. Kristie Wilder:

   Population growth has been slowing for years because of lower birth rates and decreasing net international migration, all while mortality rates are rising due to the aging of the nation’s population, now, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this combination has resulted in an historically slow pace of growth.

2. Christine Laine:

   To be honest with our patients and the public, we shouldn't be making recommendations that sound like they're based on solid evidence, there may be lots of reasons to decrease meat in your diet, but if you're decreasing it to improve your health, we don't have a lot of strong evidence to support that.

3. Ahmedin Jemal:

   We continue to make progress in reducing cancer death rates in the U.S., you can already see from the report that the rates have been decreasing overall since the 1990s.

4. Steven Lee-Kong:

   There is a phenomenon of decreasing overall colorectal cancer rates in the population in general, we think because of the increase in screening for particularly for older adults, but that doesn’t really account for the overall increase in the number of patients younger than, say, 50 and 45 that are developing cancer.

5. Rachel Herlihy.Also:

   The lower-case rates are associated with districts that are requiring masks in schools, again showing that masks are having and decreasing transmission in our school settings.