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/ɪnkrˈist/ /ˈɪnkrˌist/ Listen

verb

Increase v. t. To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence. "I will increase the famine." "Make denials Increase your services."

Increase v. i. (past & past part. increased; pres. part. increasing)

1.

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; opposed to decrease. "The waters increased and bare up the ark." "He must increase, but I must decrease." "The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow!"

2.

To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. "Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn."

3.

(Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.

Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished; also called a monotonically increasing function.

Synonyms: To enlarge; extend; multiply; expand; develop; heighten; amplify; raise; enhance; spread; aggravate; magnify; augment; advance. To Increase, Enlarge, Extend. Enlarge implies to make larger or broader in size. Extend marks the progress of enlargement so as to have wider boundaries. Increase denotes enlargement by growth and internal vitality, as in the case of plants. A kingdom is enlarged by the addition of new territories; the mind is enlarged by knowledge. A kingdom is extended when its boundaries are carried to a greater distance from the center. A man's riches, honors, knowledge, etc., are increased by accessions which are made from time to time.

adjective

increased adj.

1.

Made greater in size or amount or degree. Opposite of decreased. (Narrower terms: augmented; exaggerated, hyperbolic, inflated; exaggerated, magnified, enlarged; raised(prenominal), inflated)

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Etymology of 'Increased'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Increased" Quotes from Famous Books

... that matter, yet. The railroad came to town and the march of improvement struck it, after I had gone away. Century-old institutions were ruthlessly upset. The police force, which in my boyhood consisted of a man and a half—that is, one with a wooden leg—was increased and uniformed, and the night watchmen's chant was stopped. But there are limits to everything. The town that had been waked every hour of the night since the early Middle Ages to be told that it slept soundly, could not possibly take a night's rest without it. It lay awake dreading all sorts ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... young man found himself again confronting the glittering light of the courtyard, he remembered the interview and the soft twilight of the boudoir only as part of a pleasant dream. There was a rude awakening in the fierce wind, which had increased with the lengthening shadows. It seemed to sweep away the half-sensuous comfort that had pervaded him, and made him coldly realize that he had done nothing to solve the difficulties of his relations to Susy. He ...

— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte

... your usefulness in every direction will be increased by a knowledge of the languages. The other things that you study in college you will largely forget, anyhow; and, besides, you study them principally for the mental discipline in them. But if you get a language, and get it correctly, ...

— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge

... and unruly. Their object is relaxation, and they are disappointed if mental exertion be required, when they expected only amusement. But if the theatre be made instrumental towards higher objects, the diversion, of the spectator will not be increased, but ennobled. It will be a diversion, but a poetical one. All art is dedicated to pleasure, and there can be no higher and worthier end than to make men happy. The true art is that which provides the highest degree of pleasure; and this consists in the abandonment ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... crowded-up guns to send its charge tearing through the foe. Then another spoke, and, with yells of despair, the wave swung back a little. Another volley from the barricade staggered them more, and the fire of the guns increased in regularity, while all at once I found that we had more room; the lancers had been withdrawn. A few more shots into the mass made them waver. "Cease firing!" rang out, and the trampling of horses began once more, as the lancers passed through us, and hurled themselves ...

— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn

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