Decrease: alternatives and connections

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

Use particularly for economies, markets, volumes or physical dimensions.

To beat down; to overthrow.

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To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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to write or engrave around.

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

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With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sig…

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To reduce from an inflated condition.

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To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

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To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

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To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

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Compar. of Low, a.

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To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

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To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of…

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with…

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Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

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To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

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To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

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To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.

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To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a shi…

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To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.

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To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

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The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

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Alt. of Amortisement

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The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

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The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.

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That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

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The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or…

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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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A general decrease in prices over time.

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The act of depleting or emptying.

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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt paym…

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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of Dwindle

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That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

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The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palli…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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of Lower

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The act or process of minimizing.

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The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, th…

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The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

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The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

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The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

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The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…

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That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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of Shorten

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The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

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of Shrink

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of Sink

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The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

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The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

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of Wane

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Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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The act of altering or making different.

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To go up; to ascend.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

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The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

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The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

Prefer fall for an intransitive change: prices fall; decrease can also take an object.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

It can imply deterioration or a continuing downward trend more strongly than decrease.

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

Reduce is usually transitive and focuses on causing something to become smaller.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

Decline is common for a downward trend or reduction over time.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Diminish means become or make less in size, strength or importance.

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

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The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

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