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Increase   /ɪnkrˈis/  /ˈɪnkrˌis/   Listen
Increase

noun
1.
A quantity that is added.  Synonyms: addition, gain.  "They recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
2.
A change resulting in an increase.
3.
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.  Synonyms: growth, increment.  "The growth of population"
4.
The amount by which something increases.  Synonym: increment.
5.
The act of increasing something.  Synonym: step-up.
verb
(past & past part. increased; pres. part. increasing)
1.
Become bigger or greater in amount.
2.
Make bigger or more.  "The university increased the number of students it admitted"



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"Increase" Quotes from Famous Books



... made, and from that time forth the antagonism between the eminent statesman and the great military chieftain became inevitable. The importance of the one seemed likely to increase day by day. The occupation of the other for a time ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... on the ice has within a few years attracted considerable attention on our northern rivers and lakes, and seems likely to increase. It is an amusement well adapted to big boys, being exciting, requiring skill, and certainly not more dangerous than skating. It is even more fascinating than yachting, without the danger which always attends the latter pursuit. A small ice-boat that a boy can build ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 • Various
... the contradictions to be encountered at the very first step we take in examining this religion; and I take upon myself to predict that your embarrassment will increase as you proceed therein. If you coolly examine the ideas presented to us in the revelation common both to Jews and Christians, and contained in the books which they tell us are sacred, you will find that the Deity who speaks is always in contradiction with himself; that ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach
... no plush of downiest texture can exceed the satin smoothness of the fibres which line its heart. There are a class of people in New England who betray the uprising of the softer feelings of our nature only by an increase of outward asperity—a sort of bashfulness and shyness leaves them no power of expression for these unwonted guests of the heart—they hurry them into inner chambers and slam the doors upon them, as if they ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... sometimes against Indians, and sometimes against the French, or, as was usually the case, against them both combined. He was occasionally sent to distant posts; commanding expeditions to the eastward as far as Acadia. He was at one time in charge of a force at Port Royal, now Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Increase Mather calls him a "godly and courageous commander." When the last decisive struggle with King Philip was approaching, and aid was needed from the eastern part of the colony to rescue the settlements on the Connecticut River from utter destruction, the "Flower of Essex" was summoned ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham


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