DECREASE, DECREASING
ADJECTIVES
► DECRESCENT decreasing, growing gradually less → 1811
► REMISSIVE producing or allowing decrease of something → 1686 obs.
NOUNS
► ADMINISHING reduction, decrease, diminishing → 1400 obs.
► CASTRATION decrease or reduction in quantity or amount; curtailment → 1728 obs.
► DECAY falling off in quantity, volume, etc.; dwindling, decrease → 1636 obs.
► DECESS decrease, diminution → 1854
► DECESSION departure, withdrawal; secession; deviation from a given standard; decrease, diminution → 1606
► DECREMENT the fact of decreasing or growing gradually less; decrease, diminution, lessening, waste, loss → 1621
► DECRETION decrease, diminution → 1635 obs.
► IMMINUTION diminution, lessening, decrease → 1590 obs.
► WANE decrease in size → a1300 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABATOR one who decreases anything → 1592
VERBS
► BATE to decrease in amount, weight, estimation; to abate, to diminish, to fall off in quantity → a1541 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DECAY to fall off or decrease in number, volume, etc.; to dwindle away → 1489 obs.
► DECREW to decrease, to wane → 1596 obs.
► LESS to become less, to decrease → a1225 obs.
► IMMINISH to become less; to decrease → a1400 obs.
► SWAN-DIVE to decrease suddenly and decisively; to plummet
► SWIND to waste away, to languish; to dwindle away, to decrease, to die; also, to vanish, to disappear → 1000 obs.
► TAKE OFF to abate, to grow less, to decrease → 1776
► WANZE to decrease, to grow less; of the moon: to wane → c1200 obs.
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