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decrease    音标拼音: [dɪkr'is] [d'ikr,is]
vi. 减少,减小
vt. 减少,减小
n. 减少,减小

减少,减小减少,减小减少,减小

decrease
n 1: a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature
as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in
sales" [synonym: {decrease}, {lessening}, {drop-off}] [ant:
{increase}]
2: a process of becoming smaller or shorter [synonym: {decrease},
{decrement}] [ant: {growth}, {increase}, {increment}]
3: the amount by which something decreases [synonym: {decrease},
{decrement}] [ant: {increase}, {increment}]
4: the act of decreasing or reducing something [synonym: {decrease},
{diminution}, {reduction}, {step-down}] [ant: {increase},
{step-up}]
v 1: decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework
decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin
pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a
hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [synonym:
{decrease}, {diminish}, {lessen}, {fall}] [ant: {increase}]
2: make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [synonym: {decrease},
{lessen}, {minify}] [ant: {increase}]

Decrease \De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decreased}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Decreasing}.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F.
d['e]cro[^i]tre, or from the OF. noun (see {Decrease}, n.),
fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de crescere to grow. See
{Crescent}, and cf. {Increase}.]
To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished
gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in
strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in
length from June to December.
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He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii.
30.

Syn: To {Decrease}, {Diminish}.

Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and
from within, or through some cause which is
imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold
decreases; their affection has decreased. Things
commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one
which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by
disease; his property is diminishing through
extravagance; their affection has diminished since
their separation their separation. The turn of
thought, however, is often such that these words may
be interchanged.
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The olive leaf, which certainly them told
The flood decreased. --Drayton.
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Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye;
Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly.
--Pope.
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Decrease \De*crease"\, v. t.
To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as,
extravagance decreases one's means.
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That might decrease their present store. --Prior.
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Decrease \De*crease"\, n. [OE. decrees, OF. decreis, fr.
decreistre. See {Decrease}, v.]
1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease
of revenue or of strength.
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2. The wane of the moon. --Bacon.
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232 Moby Thesaurus words for "decrease":
abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviation, ablate, ablation,
abrade, abridge, abstract, allay, alleviate, apportion, astriction,
astringency, attrition, bate, be eaten away, bottleneck, calibrate,
calibrated, cervix, circumscribe, circumscription, clip, close,
coarct, coarctation, compact, compactedness, compaction, compress,
compression, compressure, concentrate, concentration, condensation,
condense, consolidate, consolidation, constrict, constriction,
constringe, constringency, consume, consume away, consumption,
contract, contraction, contracture, corrode, count, cramp, crumble,
curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut down, cutting, damp,
dampen, de-escalate, de-escalation, decline, decrement, deduct,
deflate, deliquesce, deplete, depletion, depreciate, depreciation,
depress, derogate, derogation, detract, detraction, die away,
differentiate, diminish, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disparage,
disparagement, dissipate, dissipation, dive, divide, downgrade,
drain, draw, draw in, draw together, dribble away, drop, drop off,
dwindle, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, erode,
erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extract, extraction,
fall, fall away, fall off, falling off, file away, fix,
gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, hierarchic,
hourglass, hourglass figure, impair, impairment, impoverishment,
increase, isthmus, knit, knitting, languish, leach, leakage,
lessen, lessening, let up, lighten, lower, lowering, measure,
melt away, mitigate, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, neck, number,
parcel, pare, peter out, plummet, plunge, progressive, pucker,
pucker up, puckering, purify, purse, pursing, quantify, quantize,
rate, rebate, recede, reduce, reduction, refine, regular,
remission, remove, retraction, retrench, retrenchment, roll back,
rub away, run low, sag, scalar, scale down, shade off, shorten,
shortening, shrink, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivel up, simplify,
sink, slacken, slackening, solidification, solidify, squander,
step down, strangle, stranglement, strangulate, strangulation,
striction, stricture, subduct, subside, subsidence, subtract,
systole, tail off, take away, take from, taper, taper off, thin,
thin out, trim, truncation, tune down, using, using up, wane,
wasp waist, wastage, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wearing,
wearing away, weed, withdraw, wrinkle, wrinkling


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