Increase synonyms
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A linear map from one reference frame to another in which each coordinate is increased or decreased by an independent constant or linear function. A boost corresponds to a shift of the entire coordinate system without any rotation of its axes.
The act of becoming broader
Growth
The fact of becoming greater or larger; increase; gain; growth
progress (related)
Progress is moving forwards towards an end goal, or is making things better or more advanced.
A period of business prosperity, industrial expansion, etc.
decrease (antonym)
The amount by which something decreases.
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strengthen (related)
To enrich is defined as to improve something or make something better.
abridge (antonym)
To reduce the length of (a written text); condense:
accessorial
Of or like an accessory; supplementary
grow (related)
To increase in size and develop toward maturity, as a plant or animal does by assimilating food
To increase; grow:
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(Uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level:
A number or other mathematical expression written in an extended form. For example, a2 + 2 ab + b2 is the expansion of ( a + b )2 .
To increase the intensity of (passion, desire, violence, etc.)
reduction (antonym)
(Chemistry) A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.
improve (related)
To make beneficial additions or changes:
subtraction (antonym)
Subtraction is the process used to calculate the difference between two amounts.
addition (related)
An adding of two or more numbers to get a number called the sum
(Law) Supporting the same point as earlier evidence:
groundswell
A rapidly growing wave of popular sentiment or opinion
To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth:
be prolific
To add to
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(Idiomatic) To accumulate a debt.
(Intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
(Idiomatic) to strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to
uptick
A transaction in a stock market executed at a price above the previous transaction for the same security.
To gather or cause to increase; amass:
To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need:
decline (antonym)
The definition of a decline is a lessening or failing.
To make or become broad or broader.
The result of such a process.
Tending to accumulate
accrument
Alternative form of accruement.
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
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The act or process of augmenting.
concrescence
The amassing of physical particles.
An increase in the severity of a disease or in any of its signs or symptoms.
The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
To determine the interest on the principal and on whatever interest has already accrued.
To make more intense or sharp; aggravate (disease, pain, annoyance, etc.)
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To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch:
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
To move upwards.
To grow in loudness or intensity:
To bring forth offspring; reproduce
A dilating or being dilated, as of the pupil of an eye, a blood vessel, or the cervix during childbirth
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(Intransitive) To become longer.
To add on or attach, as a smaller thing to a larger; append
To advance (a runner) by hitting a double
To become or cause to become tumescent.
(Grammar) Indicating great size, intensity, or power, as the prefix super– does in supermarket.
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Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
(Algebra) Having multiplication as an operator.
An artificial or natural addition or improvement to property.
Growth in size, esp. by addition or accumulation
accruement
The act of accruing.
The process of growing into a large amount or heap:
A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination.
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(Uncountable, mathematics) The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
A continuous series; a sequence:
Appreciate is when the price of something goes up.
The definition of burgeon means to grow or blossom.
To heighten or intensify the action or effect of
(Mathematics) A set that includes a given and similar set as a subset.
To grow or increase by degrees:
An increase in the size of an organism or part of an organism, usually as a result of an increase in the number of cells. Growth of an organism may stop at maturity, as in the case of humans and other mammals, or it may continue throughout life, as in many plants. In humans, certain body parts, like hair and nails, continue to grow throughout life.
To undergo or cause to undergo hypertrophy
The definition of inflate is to fill an expandable structure with air or gas to make it larger, or to exaggerate something or increase something by a large amount.
(Ecology) To increase rapidly in number, especially beyond the normal range:
To begin or start. Often used with off:
To propagate is to breed plants or animals, to cause something to increase in number, or to spread an idea.
To rise or fall with steady acceleration.
To improve one's performance suddenly, especially in bettering one's standing in a competition.
Upgrade is defined as to improve, promote or make better.
To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone.
depletion (antonym)
The use or consumption of a resource, especially a natural resource, faster than it is replenished.
loss (antonym)
Loss is defined as having something or someone leave or be taken away from you, a feeling of grief when something is gone, or a decline in money.
diminishment (antonym)
The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
diminish (antonym)
(Music) To reduce (a perfect or a minor interval) by a half step
deplete (antonym)
To deplete is defined as to diminish or use up the supply of something.
subtract (antonym)
To take away (a part from a whole)
(Obs.) An increase
To consider to be or cause to appear greater than is really the case; exaggerate:
To make larger or more powerful; increase.
To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to:
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages.
Expand is defined as to increase in size, unfold or spread out.
To cause to seem or appear larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
To go upward; rise:
(Math.) To find the product of by multiplication
To produce or give rise to:
The act or process of amassing or increasing:
An act of enlarging or the state of being enlarged.
(Uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
An upward swing or trend.
An upward turn, curve, or trend
The production of offspring or young:
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring
Propagation is the reproduction or spreading of something.
Reproduction is defined as the creation of a copy of something, a copy of something, or the act of sexual intercourse to create an offspring.
The process by which an organism produces others of its kind
increase (related)
An increasing or becoming increased
An increase, as in amount, intensity, etc.
increased (related)
increasing (related)
reduced (related)
halve (related)
fall-in (related)
lessen (related)
drop in (related)
(Electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
The state of being swollen.
The act or an instance of merging:
There is typically a correlation between the quantity of goods available and the amount of money in circulation.
The incremental increase in an asset’s value, usually because of inflation. Compare depreciation.
The act by which something is heightened or increased.
The act of becoming deeper.
The definition of an improvement is an increase in value, condition or quality.
An increase in amount
To make larger in scope or effect; expand:
To make wider or larger; cause to expand or swell; stretch
(Intransitive) To become deeper
To make an addition to something.
To increase in intensity, extent, or amount:
To add to
To make or become sharp or sharper
To improve the quality or condition of
To encourage a response by means of a reinforcer.
To provide a supplement to; add to, esp. so as to make up for a lack or deficiency
To cause to expand, especially from internal pressure; dilate:
(Baseball) To get a three-base hit
To increase the quantity of by admixture or dilution:
To make intense or more intense; increase; strengthen
To make worse or more troublesome:
raise the ante
To add to
To add to
accumulable
Able to be accumulated
Development; progress:
The definition of an enhancement is an add-on or improvement that makes something better.
tumescence
A swollen part or organ.
To join or unite (something) to something else so as to increase the quantity, number, size, etc. or change the total effect
To add to
To make or become four times as much or as many; multiply by four
Reproduce is defined as to make again, recreate or give birth to.
A body incorporated; a corporation.
To exaggerate is defined as to stretch the truth or to make something seem bigger than it is.
To add to
Synonym Study
- Multiply suggests increase in number, specif. by procreation rabbits multiply rapidly
- Augment , a more formal word, generally implies increase by addition, often of something that is already of a considerable size, amount, etc. to augment one's income
- Enlarge specifically implies a making or becoming greater in size, volume, extent, etc. to enlarge a house, a business, etc.
- Increase , the general word in this list, means to make or become greater in size, amount, degree, etc. to increase one's weight, one's power, debts, etc.
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