decrease suggests a progressive decline in size, amount, numbers, or intensity. lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number. diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its …

Our share of the market has decreased sharply this year. We have decreased our involvement in children's books.

DECREASED definition: to diminish or cause to diminish in size , number, strength , etc | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English

Decrease definition: to diminish or lessen in extent, quantity, strength, power, etc... See examples of DECREASE used in a sentence.

Decrease and lessen have the most general application: saw the plane descend as its speed decreased; vowed to decrease government spending; an appetite that lessened as the disease progressed; …

decrease (from something) (to something) The number of new students decreased from 210 to 160 this year. decrease by something The price of wheat has decreased by 5 per cent.

decreased Definitions of decreased adjective made less in size or amount or degree synonyms: reduced

the act or process of decreasing; condition of being decreased; gradual reduction:a decrease in sales; a decrease in intensity. the amount by which a thing is lessened:The decrease in sales was almost 20 …

An early death due to disease decreased over the course of the last decade, just as it has since the advent of modern medicine.

Synonyms for DECREASED: dropped, depressed, under, receded, knockdown, low, down, reduced; Antonyms of DECREASED: increased, high, elevated, up, heightened, raised, maximum, extreme