Another word for decrease
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Verb
Noun
The act or process of decreasing
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Another word for decrease
Verb
To grow less
To make less
Idioms:
on the decrease
Synonym Study
- Reduce implies a lowering, or bringing down to reduce prices
- Diminish emphasizes subtraction from the whole by some external agent disease had diminished their ranks
- Lessen is equivalent to decrease , except that it does not imply any particular rate of decline his influence lessened overnight
- Decrease and dwindle suggest a growing gradually smaller in bulk, size, volume, or number, but dwindle emphasizes a marked wasting away to the point of disappearance his hopes decreased as his fortune dwindled away to nothing
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