Decrease

Definitions: Decrease

Decrease

Noun

1. A change downward; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales".

2. A process of becoming smaller.

3. The amount by which something decreases.

4. The act of decreasing or reducing something.

Verb

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

2. Make smaller; "He decreased his staff".

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Date "decrease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Metallurgy

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Synonyms: Decrease

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Noun: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease; of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; Verb: compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Noun: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession; retrogradation; decrease.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Noun: subtraction, subduction; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation; abstraction; (taking); garbling; Verb: mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment; minuend, subtrahend; decrease; abrasion.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Noun: decrease, diminution; lessening; Verb: subtraction; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking; (contraction.); coarctation; abridgment; (shortening); extenuation.

Crosswords: Decrease

Don't stop for lunch: be ahead of your competitor. The Billows Feeding Machine will eliminate the lunch hour, increase your production, and decrease your overhead. (Modern Times; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now, and all I have to do is get my posing routine down more perfect, which is almost impossible to do, you know. (Pumping Iron; writing credit: George Butler; Charles Gaines)

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Books

• 1989-1990 Debate Packet: The Federal Government Should Adopt A National Policy to Decrease Overcrowding in Prisons and Jails in the U.S. (reference)

• Communicating with Today's Patient: Essentials to Save Time, Decrease Risk, and Increase Patient Compliance (reference)

• How to Decrease Wordiness: A Handbook With Models for Executives and Professionals (How to Improve Your Writing) (reference)

• Improving bank profits : how to decrease operating expenses and increase income (reference)

• Increase Motivation & Decrease Procrastination (reference)

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Music

• Decrease (reference)

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Efficient irrigation systems help save water and decrease leaching of salts.Credit: Gene Alexander.

Irrigation sytems that reduce evaporation decrease use of water.Credit: Gary Kramer.

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The decrease of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.

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Health

Quinine or phenytoin may decrease cramps. (references)

Glucocorticoids decrease calcium absorption. (references)

Also, as people age, their enzyme levels decrease. (references)

Business

Demand is expected to increase as prices decrease. (references)

There is a slight decrease, especially among children. (references)

This was caused by a decrease in domestic production in this category. (references)

Children

El Salvador

The ISPM reported 139 cases of sexual abuse through November 30, a decrease from the 2000 figure of 292. A majority of the victims were female. (references)

Fiji

School is mandatory until age 15. Families' inability to pay school fees and bus fare following the downturn in the economy has resulted in a decrease in attendance. (references)

China

According to 1998 Government statistics, the unemployment rate for persons with disabilities is 26.7 percent, a decrease from the past, but still almost 10 times the official rate for the general population. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Christian leaders detected a slight decrease in the incidents of violence against their community and also a change in the type of incidents. (references)

Belgium

Authorities believe the decrease was due to more stability in the Balkans and a change in government policy to provide in-kind assistance rather than direct assistance. (references)

Iraq

Most observers view the policy as an attempt to decrease the proportion of non-Arab citizens in the oil-rich Kirkuk region, and thereby secure Arab demographic control of the area. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Estimates for 2001, indicate a decrease to USD 32.2 bullion. (references)

Switzerland

Another decrease also was reported in sales of tennis rackets. (references)

Dominican Rep

Importers are hopeful that tariffs would decrease in the near future. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

Violence in Richmond continued to decrease during the year. (references)

Venezuela

This was a decrease from 57 percent in 1999. Forced exile is illegal and is not practiced. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Security forces committed 150 killings during the year, which was a significant decrease from in the previous year. (references)

Minorities

Austria

Statistics for 2000 showed a decrease in the number of official complaints of neo-Nazi, rightwing extremist, and xenophobic incidents. (references)

Ukraine

Societal anti-Semitism persisted; however, during the year there was a continued decrease in anti-Semitic acts and anti-Semitic publications in local newspapers and an increase in government action against anti-Semitism. (references)

Hungary

The Martin Luther King Organization (MLKO), which documents assaults on nonwhites, reported a gradual decrease in the number of such incidents over the past several years, with three such cases in the first 9 months of 2000. However, MLKO sources believe that many cases go unreported. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

Businesses in the tourist district report a 50 percent decrease in sales. (references)

Ethiopia

Exports decreased during the year due to the decrease in the world price of coffee. (references)

Ukraine

Wage arrears began to decrease in 2000, and by November had decreased by approximately 58 percent. (references)

Political Rights

Jordan

Five of 28 ministers are of Palestinian origin, a decrease from 9 of 28 in the previous government. (references)

Indonesia

Women represent less than 9 percent of DPR members, a decrease from 13 percent during Soeharto's last term. (references)

El Salvador

In March 2000, voters elected 8 women to the 84-seat legislature, a decrease from the previous Assembly's 14 women. (references)

Trade

Nicaragua

Rums and liquor will decrease until the IEC reaches 35 percent. (references)

Nicaragua

Beers will decrease by one percentage point annually as well, until the IEC reaches 32 percent. (references)

Nicaragua

The IEC on soft drinks will decrease by 3 percentage points annually until it reaches 9 percent. (references)

Women

Luxembourg

Information offices set up to respond to women in distress reported that they received 3,724 telephone calls in 2000, a decrease from 1999 levels. (references)

Botswana

Well-trained urban women enjoy growing entry level access to the white-collar job market, but the number of opportunities decrease sharply as they rise in seniority. (references)

Zambia

In practice property grabbing by the relatives of the deceased man remains widespread, although increased training of local court officials has brought about a slight decrease in the number of incidents. (references)

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

Union membership continued to decrease during the year. (references)

China

Some monasteries reportedly have been required to decrease the number of monks associated with them. (references)

Russia

Although some enterprises still force their employees to take wages in barter, the practice continued to decrease. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "decrease": be on the decrease ♦ decrease in merchandise ♦ decrease in value ♦ decrease in working time ♦ lift decrease ♦ on the decrease. Additional references.

Ending with "decrease": non-decrease.

Afrikaan

verminder (abate, abridge, diminish, drop, fall, lessen), verlaging (abasement, abatement, lowering), afneem (decline, wane). (various references)

Albanian

zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), zvogëlim (detraction, diminution, lessening, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, understatement), vogëlim (diminution, lessening, reduction), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, deepen, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), pakësohem (diminish, drop off, dwindle, ease off, ease up, fall off, lessen, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), pakësim (abatement, attenuation, cut, decrement, deflation, degression, detraction, diminution, fall, leanness, lessening, letup, modification, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, taper, wane). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقصان (diminution, hole), ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏قلل (diminish, lessen, make less, minify, minimize, reduce, slim), ‏قلص (constrict, constringe, contract, cut, diminish, minimize, reduce, scale down), ‏تناقص (diminishing, dwindling, run short, wane), ‏تقليص (constriction, contraction, curtailment, diminishing, reducing, remission), ‏تخفيض (lessening, lowering, markdown, rebate, reduction, relief, run down), ‏آخذ في النقص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свивам бримки при плетене, снижаване (decrement), снижавам (modify, take from), спадане (decrement, deflation, falling, run down, slip, subsidence, wane), спадам (decline, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sag, sink, turn down), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), намаление (abridgement, curtailment, cutback, decline, discount, rebate, reduction, run down). (various references)

Chinese 

煞 (baleful, bring to a stop, pan-fry, tighten, very), 縮小 (reduce), 减退. (various references)

Czech

ztenèit se (diminish), zmenšovat se (close, dwindle), zmenšení (abatement, contraction, diminution, reduction, shrinkage), ubývat (be on the wane, decline, dwindle, ebb, sink, subside, wane, waste), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away), snížení (abatement, cut, depreciatingly, fall, mark down, reduction), redukovat (deflate, reduce, slim), pokles (decline, depression, diminution, dip, drop, fall, sag, subsidence), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel), ochabnout (become flabby, decline, fizzle out, flag, quail, sag, slacken), klesnout (come down, drop, go under, sink), úbytek. (various references)

Danish

afgang (departure, drain, withdrawal). (various references)

Dutch

verlagen (abase, abate, attenuate, degrade, lower), afname (abatement, acquisition, buy, decay, decrement, demand, diminution, draw off, extraction, fall-off, offtake, purchase, sale, taking, taking over, wane), afdraaien (abase, abate, grind out, lower, rattle off, reel off, turn away). (various references)

Esperanto

plimalgrandigi, plimalgrandiĝi (diminish), plietiĝi (diminish), malpliigi (abate, abridge, lessen), malpliiĝi (abate, diminish, drop, fall), malplialtigi (lower), malkresko (abatement, diminution, wane), malkreski (abate, diminish), malgrandiĝi (decline, wane), malaltigi (abase, lower). (various references)

Farsi 

نقصان یافتن (Diminish, Wane), کم کردن یاشدن , کاهش (Abate, Decline, Diminution, Rebate, Reduction, Scaledown, Slake, Wastage), کاستن (Abate, Decline, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract). (various references)

Finnish

vähetä (diminish, grow less, lessen), vähentyä (diminish), vähentää (abate, attenuate, curtail, cut, deduct, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from, take off), väheneminen (falling off), pienetä (become smaller, diminish), pienentyä (become smaller, diminish), pienennys (gearing, reduction, stepping down), laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, let go, lower, pay out, reckon, set, set out, shoot, veer, veer out, work out), huveta (dwindle, shrink), hupeneminen (vanishing), heiketä (abate, die down, grow weaker, lose strength, weaken), aleneminen (drop, sinking). (various references)

French

diminution (decrement, depression, derogation), diminuer (decline, depress, detract), abaisser (demolish, depress, destroy). (various references)

Frisian

ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

German

verringern (abate, allay, bate, diminish, ease, extenuate, lessen, lower, reduce, scale down, slacken, thin, to abate, to allay, to bate, to reduce, weaken), vermindern (abate, attenuate, derogate, diminish, ease, lessen, reduce, slacken, to derogate, to diminish, weaken), abnahme (abatement, acceptance, acceptance sampling plan, administering, amputation, carrying out, certification, decline, decrease in assets, decrease in liabilities, demand, drop, falling off, flagging, holding, inspection, purchase, reduction, removal, sale, slackening, slump, taking down, waning). (various references)

Greek 

μείωση (abatement, decrement, depletion, derogation, deterioration, detraction, dilution, diminution, discount, fall, gearing, mitigation, reduction, regression, retrogression, shrinkage, slackening, stepping down, tret, understatement). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"מעיט (diminish, lessen, slight), �"תמעטות (diminution, ebb, lessening), פחית�" (diminishing, lessening, reduction), פחיתות (depreciation), ל�"פחית (abate, abridge, cut down, devaluate, diminish, lower, reduce, remit, step down, subtract, take away), ל�"קטין (abate, detract, diminish, lessen, reduce, scale down), �'ריע�" (diminution), ל�"תמעט (be reduced, become smaller, lessen, wane), למעוט (be small, diminish, dwindle), לחסר (cause loss, deduct, lessen, miss someone, reduce, subtract), לחסור (be absent, be reduced, diminish, lack), לפחות (at least, be reduced, become less, diminish, leastways, lessen, reduce), לפחת (diminish, lessen, reduce), לקטון (be reduced, be small, diminish, lessen), למעט (exclude, excluding, exclusive of, lessen, reduce, slight, with the exeption of, without), ל�"ורי�" (bring down, depress, let down, lower, sink, subtract, take down). (various references)

Hungarian

csökkent (abate, alleviate, attenuate, cut, cut back, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, diminution, droop, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, subsidence, waste), apaszt (reduce, to lessen), apadás (diminution, shrinkage, ullage, wane, waning). (various references)

Icelandic

niðurlægja (abase, abate, lower). (various references)

Indonesian

susut (shrink), potongan (allowance, cutlet), pengurangan (attenuation, cut, cutback, declension, decrement, deduction, diminution), berkurang (derogate). (various references)

Italian

diminuzione (abatement, decrement, diminution, drop, fall, fall-off, letup, reduction, remission, wastage), diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

減収 (fall), 減損 , 減少 (decline, reduction), 減り (fall, reduction), 低減 (depreciation, fall, mitigation, reduction). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'�"しゅう (fall), �'�"しょう (decline, phenomenon, reduction), �'�"そ�" (existing, extant, great-great-grandchild, living, real existence, Real Presence), へり (fall, reduction), てい�'�" (categorical statement, depreciation, fall, mitigation, motion, proposal, reduction, successive diminution). (various references)

Korean 

감소 (delete, Diminution, reducing, reduction, rundown). (various references)

Manx

parail (decline, diminished, diminution, dying), paarail, leodaghey (degrade, depreciate, detract, diminish, diminution; detractor; cheap, diminution; detractor; cheap morally, dislike, disparage, disparagement, disrespect, drop, dull; reduction, impair, impairment, mitigate, mitigation, offset, reduce, remission, subtract, undervalue). (various references)

Norwegian

forminske (abate, abridge, diminish, lessen). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecreaseday

Portuguese

diminuição (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, cutback, decrement, depletion, derogation, diminution, dissipation, fall-off, impairment, reduction, release, remission, retrenchment, shrinkage, sinking, wane). (various references)

Romanian

diminua (adate, decline, depress, diminish, minimize, mitigate, reduce, retrench, take the edge off), descreştere (abatement, diminution, failing, retreat), descreşte (abate, Bate, decline, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane), se reduce (amount to, boil down, cancel, lessen, lower), se diminua (abate, diminish, dwindle, fall away), scãdere (abstraction, decline, deduction, defect, deficiency, degression, derogation, diminution, drawback, drop, fall, lessening, reduction, remission, shortcoming, subtraction), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), micşorare (contraction, detraction, diminution, dockage, drop, mitigation, palliation, reduction), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), face sã descreascã, împuţinare (diminution, lessening), împuţina (diminish, lessen). (various references)

Russian 

уменьшение (abatement, decline, decrement, degression, diminution, downturn, lessening, mitigation, reduction, remission, slippage), уменьшаться (abate, come down, decline, depopulate, diminish, dwindle, grow down, grow downwards, peter out, remit, take off), уменьшать (abate, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, narrow down, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back), уменьшить (diminish), убывать (ebb, neap, recede, wane), убыль, понижение (degradation, demotion, droop, falling, recession, subsidence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umanjiti (attenuate, cut back, detract, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minify, minimize, reduce, turn down), smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, cut down, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down), smanjenje (abatement, curtailment, cut, cutting down, extenuation, lowering, mark down, markdown, mitigation, reduction, shrinkage, waning), opadanje (decline, decrement, downtrend, ebb, fall out, falling, fallout, loss, subsidence, wane, waning). (various references)

Spanish

decrecer (abate, diminish, drop, ease off, fall, lose weight, sink, slim, take away), disminuir (abate, assuage, attenuate, curtail, cut down, damp, decline, detract, diminish, drop, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, lighten, like, lower, put down, reduce, relieve, subside, weaken), menguar (abate, bind off, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fall, lessen, reduce, shorten, subside, wane), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), amainar (abate, diminish, drop, ease, fall, shorten, weaken). (various references)

Swedish

minska (abate, allay, curtail, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), avtagande (abatement, decline, decrement, decrescent, diminution, fall, letup, refluence, refluent, reflux, subsidies, wane). (various references)

Turkish

düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), küçültmek (abase, belittle, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lessen, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, reduce, shrink), küçülmek (be on the wane, be reduced, become small, derogate, dwindle, feel insignificant, shrink, wane), küçülme (abasement, becoming smaller, derogation, self abasement, shrinkage), inmek (alight, climb down, come down, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into, take off), eksiltmek (derogate, detract, diminish, reduce, underbid), eksiltme (cut back, derogation, detraction, diminution, lessening), eksilmek (drop off, fall away, fall out, grow less, lessen, ooze away, taper off), eksilme (decrement, diminution, falling away, falling off, turnover, wane), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), azaltma (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, curtailment, cutback, depletion, derogation, detraction, diminution, discount, lessening, retrenchment, setdown), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decline, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, let up, letdown, reduce, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, subsidence, wane). (various references)

Turkmen 

saяpallamak (hall, subside), pesele, kiзelmek (diminish, shorten), kemelmek (decline, diminish), gowzalmak (get rid of). (various references)

Ukranian 

убувати (ebb, ooze, recede, wane), убування, ослаблення (abatement, attenuation, dйtente, debilitation, decay, depression, derogation, dilution, extenuation, impoverishment, labefaction, let down, letup, prostration), зниження (abatement, cadence, declension, decline, descent, fall, falling, reduction, relief), зменшуватися (abate, decline, dispeople, drop across, drop off, ease, ease off, fall off, turn down), зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), зменшення (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, cutback, cutting, decline, decrement, degression, depression, diminution, narrowing, wane). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sắc luật (doom), sắc lệnh (dormant, edict, enaction, enactment, fiat, ordinance, prescript), sự giảm sút, sự giảm đi. (various references)

Welsh

lleihau (abate, attenuate, diminish, lessen), lleihad (attenuation, diminution). (various references)

decessio, decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque, diminutione, diminutionem, minuo minui minutum, tepesco. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "decrease": decreased, decreases. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decrease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adecrease, Declease, Decrane, Dorcase, Ferchase, Setcreasea. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: creased, decares, decease, decrees, recedes, seceder.

-2 letters: cadres, ceased, cedars, ceders, crease, creeds, creese, decare, decree, erased, recede, reseda, reseed, sacred, scared, screed, seared, secede, seeder.

-3 letters: acred, acres, aedes, arced, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cease, cedar, ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, creed, daces, dares, dears, deers, drees, eared, eased, erase, escar, raced, races, rased, reads, redes, reeds, resee, saree, scare, scree, seder, serac, sered.

-4 letters: aced, aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, cade, cads, card, care, cars, case, cede, cees, cere, dace, dare, dear, deer, dees, dere, dree, ears, ease, eras, race, rads, rase, read, recs, rede, reds, reed, rees, sade, sard, scad, scar, sear, seed, seer, sera, sere.

-5 letters: ace, ads, arc, are, ars, cad, car, cee, dee, ear, eds, era, ere, ers, rad, ras, rec, red, ree, res, sac, sad, sae, sea, sec, see, ser.

+1 letter: decreased, decreases, desecrate, reaccedes.

+2 letters: adherences, cheerleads, decameters, decenaries, deprecates, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, federacies, precreased, predecease, reascended, reeducates, researched.

+3 letters: advertences, calenderers, carpetweeds, decelerates, depreciates, desecraters, eviscerated, predeceased, predeceases, redecorates, rededicates, reescalated.

+4 letters: advertencies, cheerleaders, confederates, debaucheries, decelerators, decemvirates, decerebrates, deconsecrate, decrepitates, degeneracies, deliverances, disseverance, overeducates, predeceasing, sacrednesses.

+5 letters: aeromedicines, barefacedness, breechloaders, candleberries, confederacies, crabbednesses, decelerations, decentralizes, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, denuclearizes, determinacies, disseverances, inadvertences, overdecorates, overmedicates, preadolescent, reconsecrated, schadenfreude, supercalender, transcendence, underachieves.

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