verb, noun
verb ~ (from sth) (to sth) to become or make sth become smaller in size, number, etc:
[V] The number of new students decreased from 210 to 160 this year. * The price of wheat has decreased by 15%. * This species of bird is decreasing in numbers every year. * a decreasing population * Donations have decreased significantly over the past few years. * [VN] People should decrease the amount of fat they eat.
OPPINCREASE
noun [C,U] ~ (in sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for decrease is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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Yes — decrease appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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