decrease
verb (used without object)
to diminish or lessen in extent, quantity, strength, power, etc..
decreasingly
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a word derived from
decrease.
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a word derived from
decreasing.
decreasingadjectivebecoming less or fewer; diminishing.
Example Sentences
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"Unless you strike very quickly and find that money… your chances of it being brought back into the legitimate system have to be decreasingly positive," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
It seems decreasingly ironic the more we hear it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
“If we don’t know who you are after a month, that’s when it becomes decreasingly likely that we’re going to figure it out,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, the hospital’s chief medical officer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025
“In an age when religious ceremonies are decreasingly central to most lives, and in a republic in which civic rituals are purposely few and spare, sport can satisfy a yearning for ceremony,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
