increase
to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
to become greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality: Sales of automobiles increased last year.
to multiply by propagation.
to wax, as the moon.
growth or augmentation in numbers, size, strength, quality, etc.: the increase of crime.
the act or process of increasing.
that by which something is increased.
the result of increasing.
produce of the earth.
product; profit; interest.
Obsolete.
multiplication by propagation; production of offspring.
offspring; progeny.
Origin of increase
1Other words for increase
Opposites for increase
Other words from increase
- in·creas·a·ble, adjective
- in·creas·ed·ly [in-kree-sid-lee], /ɪnˈkri sɪd li/, adverb
- non·in·creas·a·ble, adjective
- non·in·crease, noun
- pre·in·crease, noun
- pre·in·crease, verb (used with object), pre·in·creased, pre·in·creas·ing.
- pro·in·crease, adjective
- qua·si-in·creased, adjective
- re·in·crease, verb, re·in·creased, re·in·creas·ing, noun
- su·per·in·crease, verb (used with object), su·per·in·creased, su·per·in·creas·ing.
- su·per·in·crease, noun
- un·in·creas·a·ble, adjective
- un·in·creased, adjective
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How to use increase in a sentence
We often see double-digit increases in conversion rates on our first test.
How to drive digital innovation necessary during the pandemic | Nick Chasinov | September 16, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThe most likely explanation for the sharp increase is investors’ hope that Spotify can become the Netflix of podcasts, explains Pivotal Research Group analyst Jeff Wlodarczak.
Spotify’s value jumped after buying the “Joe Rogan Experience” | Dan Kopf | September 11, 2020 | QuartzThe increase in prosecutions, Brewer said in July, was a result of an increase in illicit drugs, like fentanyl and methamphetamine, being seized at the region’s border crossings.
Federal Jail Downtown Now Has One of the Country’s Worst COVID Outbreaks | Maya Srikrishnan | September 10, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoFrom a customer perspective, all of the improvements in visibility have just one final goal – an increase in their business performance.
SEO proposals: Particular challenges and how to avoid getting a silent no | SEOmonitor | September 10, 2020 | Search Engine WatchChains such as Gap and Nordstrom have chalked up second-quarter losses while other groups including Target and Walmart have reported their biggest sales increases in years.
With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.
“The sensation these objects presented receded as their cost increased,” notes Rabinowitz.
The need for increased community policing is more urgent than ever before.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
All of these increased barriers then have a snowball effect.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating | Ellie Schaack | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTExcretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddUric acid is decreased before an attack of gout and increased afterward, but its etiologic relation is still uncertain.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddProvidence, interposing, made him a painter, and the gaiety of nations has been increased by the possession of some storks.
Of the extent of this increased power of production we can only speak in general terms.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockBut suppose we say, since one figure is as good as another, that it has been increased a hundred times.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for increase
to make or become greater in size, degree, frequency, etc; grow or expand
the act of increasing; augmentation
the amount by which something increases
on the increase increasing, esp becoming more frequent
Origin of increase
1Derived forms of increase
- increasable, adjective
- increasedly (ɪnˈkriːsɪdlɪ) or increasingly, adverb
- increaser, noun
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