decrease

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Gradually, they make adjustments and the deaths decrease.

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Quick take

a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of decrease gathered in one view.

noun

a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"

noun

a process of becoming smaller or shorter

noun

the amount by which something decreases

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for decrease.

noun

a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"

noun

a process of becoming smaller or shorter

noun

the amount by which something decreases

noun

the act of decreasing or reducing something

See also: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

verb

make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

Example sentences

Gradually, they make adjustments and the deaths decrease.

Do drones increase or decrease the inevitable horrors of war?

Hiding points seems to decrease the intensity and perhaps also the number of fights, as I'd hoped.

I suspect they decrease it with smaller more targeted bombs vs prior more traditional larger bombs.

All the security theater of the last 14 years has done is to decrease the security of the entire country.

The add nothing to the product, they increase complexity, decrease performance.

Best money I ever spent, because this has lead to a 100% decrease in me having to wake up at 3 AM in the morning because Jimmy Wales decided to tweet a link to my blog.

Devoting a small fraction of that time to submitting regression tests instead would dramatically decrease the number of problems in the future.

Creating an effective company requires creating a culture of passion and hardwork, and having one person only work part-time can decrease the morale of those putting in 40+ hours.

For example, domestic savings should increase and foreign investment should decrease as Americans begin to quit living on credit and start refilling their bank accounts.

But if the VCs have to pay their lawyers out of their own management fees, they'll instruct them to make the negotiations fast and simple, which will in turn decrease the billable hours on the startup's side as well.

Prices for labor are especially sticky, which means that when growth expectations fall, it's very difficult to decrease wages, which in turn makes it difficult for supply and demand of labor to balance.

Ideally burnout is kind of self-regulating because as your productivity decreases your opportunities decrease as well.

I agree we need solutions and not platitudes, but we also have to be cognizant of how our "solutions" merely decrease the salience of pervasive ills rather than attempting to tackle them head-on.

Of course this isn't going to happen any time soon, because removing even one of the requirements on the current spec will be seen as a decrease of security, and nobody wants to take the blame the next time 10 million people get their account information stolen.