Decrease

Verb

 * 1)  Of a quantity, to become smaller.
 * 2)  To make (a quantity) smaller.

Noun

 * 1) An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

Adjectives for Decrease
sagging; marked; dripping; noticeable; proportional.

Adverbs for Decrease
imperceptibly; immeasurably; relatively; markedly; proportionally; noticeably; amazingly; astonishingly; tragically; fatally ; woefully.

Synonyms for Decrease

 * drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink
 * abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduce
 * cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage
 * abate, lessen, diminish, decline, wane, narrow, curtail, minimize, subtract, contract.

Antonyms for Decrease

 * go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly)
 * increase, increment, raise, up
 * gain, increase, increment, raise (US, of pay), rise
 * dilate, extend, swell, enlarge, develop, widen, expand, add.

Thesaurus
abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviation, ablate, ablation, abrade, abridge, abstract, allay, alleviate, apportion, astriction, astringency, attrition, bate, be eaten away, bottleneck, calibrate, calibrated, cervix, circumscribe, circumscription, clip, close, coarct, coarctation, compact, compactedness, compaction, compress, compression, compressure, concentrate, concentration, condensation, condense, consolidate, consolidation, constrict, constriction, constringe, constringency, consume, consume away, consumption, contract, contraction, contracture, corrode, count, cramp, crumble, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut down, cutting, damp, dampen, de-escalate, de-escalation, decline, decrement, deduct, deflate, deliquesce, deplete, depletion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, derogate, derogation, detract, detraction, die away, differentiate, diminish, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disparage, disparagement, dissipate, dissipation, dive, divide, downgrade, drain, draw, draw in, draw together, dribble away, drop, drop off, dwindle, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, erode, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extract, extraction, fall, fall away, fall off, falling off, file away, fix, gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, hierarchic, hourglass, hourglass figure, impair, impairment, impoverishment, increase, isthmus, knit, knitting, languish, leach, leakage, lessen, lessening, let up, lighten, lower, lowering, measure, melt away, mitigate, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, neck, number, parcel, pare, peter out, plummet, plunge, progressive, pucker, pucker up, puckering, purify, purse, pursing, quantify, quantize, rate, rebate, recede, reduce, reduction, refine, regular, remission, remove, retraction, retrench, retrenchment, roll back, rub away, run low, sag, scalar, scale down, shade off, shorten, shortening, shrink, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivel up, simplify, sink, slacken, slackening, solidification, solidify, squander, step down, strangle, stranglement, strangulate, strangulation, striction, stricture, subduct, subside, subsidence, subtract, systole, tail off, take away, take from, taper, taper off, thin, thin out, trim, truncation, tune down, using, using up, wane, wasp waist, wastage, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wearing, wearing away, weed, withdraw, wrinkle, wrinkling

Etymology
From descreistre: (French: décroître:), from  decrescere:.

Verb

 * Armenian: փոքրանալ,
 * Bulgarian: намалявам се
 * German:
 * Greek: μειώνομαι,
 * Hebrew: פחת
 * Hungarian: csökken


 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian: descreşte,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: намалявам
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: μειώνω, ελαττώνω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: csökkent


 * Italian: diminuire, far calare, ribassare, ridurre, decrementare
 * Kurdish:
 * Russian: уменьшить, понизить
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: намаляване, намаление
 * Finnish: lasku, vähenemä
 * German:


 * Hungarian: csökkenés
 * Italian: diminuazione di, calo di , ribasso di , riduzione di
 * Swedish: minskning

Anagrams

 * deceaser