Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to decrease
Participle: decreased
Gerund: decreasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | decrease |
| you | decrease |
| he;she;it | decreases |
| we | decrease |
| you | decrease |
| they | decrease |
Perfect
| I | have decreased |
| you | have decreased |
| he;she;it | has decreased |
| we | have decreased |
| you | have decreased |
| they | have decreased |
Past
| I | decreased |
| you | decreased |
| he;she;it | decreased |
| we | decreased |
| you | decreased |
| they | decreased |
Pluperfect
| I | had decreased |
| you | had decreased |
| he;she;it | had decreased |
| we | had decreased |
| you | had decreased |
| they | had decreased |
Future
| I | will decrease |
| you | will decrease |
| he;she;it | will decrease |
| we | will decrease |
| you | will decrease |
| they | will decrease |
Future Perfect
| I | will have decreased |
| you | will have decreased |
| he;she;it | will have decreased |
| we | will have decreased |
| you | will have decreased |
| they | will have decreased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | decrease |
| you | decrease |
| he;she;it | decrease |
| we | decrease |
| you | decrease |
| they | decrease |
Perfect
| I | have decreased |
| you | have decreased |
| he;she;it | have decreased |
| we | have decreased |
| you | have decreased |
| they | have decreased |
Imperfect
| I | decreased |
| you | decreased |
| he;she;it | decreased |
| we | decreased |
| you | decreased |
| they | decreased |
Pluperfect
| I | had decreased |
| you | had decreased |
| he;she;it | had decreased |
| we | had decreased |
| you | had decreased |
| they | had decreased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would decrease |
| you | would decrease |
| he;she;it | would decrease |
| we | would decrease |
| you | would decrease |
| they | would decrease |
Perfect
| I | would have decreased |
| you | would have decreased |
| he;she;it | would have decreased |
| we | would have decreased |
| you | would have decreased |
| they | would have decreased |
Imperative
| you | decrease |
| we | Let's decrease |
| you | decrease |
Verbs conjugated like 'decrease'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'decrease'
decease,
degrease,
accrease,
begrease,
crease,
debreast,
deceave,
declense,
decream,
decree,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bring down or reduce
- abate, contract, cut short, diminish, lower, moderate, remit, remove, slacken, suppress, terminate
- become smaller
- plunge
- make smaller
- diminish
- to become smaller
- diminish, drop, fall, go down, lessen, reduce, shrink, sink
- to make smaller
- abate, cut, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lower, reduce
- decline
- lower, abate, bate, reduce, contract, drain, shrivel, diminish
- reduce
- cut, curtail, check, lower, curb, abridge, hush, impair
Antonyms
- become larger
- increase, plunge, shoot up
- make larger
- increase, augment, diminish
- of a quantity, etc: to increase
- drop, fall, go down, reduce, rise
- to grow in magnitude, quantity or extent; to become larger
- lessen, reduce, increase
- to become smaller
- increase
- decline
- rise, increase, improve
- reduce
- enlarge, augment, amplify, distend
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1383, from O.Fr. pp. stem of
descreistre, from L.
decrescere, from
de- "away from" +
crescere "to grow" (see crescent).
2. From Middle English decresen, alteration of discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere. See: Old French '
descreistre', Latin '
decrescere'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] line of objects (whose vicinity had been announced very early in the disaster by a loud cry of ‘Breakers a-head ! ’ ) and much backing of paddles, and heaving of the lead into a constantly decreasing depth of water, we dropped anchor in a strange outlandish-looking nook which nobody on board could recognise, although there was land all about us, and so close that we could plainly see the waving [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] hair, an aquiline nose, broad cheek-bones, a sunburnt complexion, and a very bright, keen, dark, and piercing eye. There were but twenty thousand of the Choctaws left, he said, and their number was decreasing every day. A few of his brother chiefs had been obliged to become civilised, and to make themselves acquainted with what the whites knew, for it was their only chance of existence. But they were [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)