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
All have been dramatically marginalized by an increasingly automated society that purports to value culture but is decreasingly keen on spreading the good word, at least beyond the vogue for clickbait and shallow fandom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Yet the opposite is true: humans are charmed by goats, and curiously, we have become more intrigued by them in the twenty-first century despite becoming a decreasingly agrarian civilization.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
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
