Increase

Definitions: Increase

Increase

Noun

1. A quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks".

2. A change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month".

3. A process of becoming larger or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population".

4. The amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare".

5. The act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary".

Verb

1. Become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased".

2. Make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Increase

Addition

Noun: addition, annexation, adjection; junction; superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase; increment, supplement; accompaniment; interposition; insertion.

Calefaction

Noun: increase of temperature; heating. Verb: calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning. Verb: ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation.

Expansion

Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.

Noun: expansion; increase; of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.

Improvement

Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics.

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Increase

Verb: increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate; (expand); grow, wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout.

Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Adjective: increased; Verb: on the increase, undiminished; additional; (added).

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Crosswords: Increase

You keep your eyes open, your chances of catching the ball increase by a factor of ten. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.)

Do you just want to lose weight, or are you looking to increase strength and flexibility as well? (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

We interrupt this program to increase dramatic tension. (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini)

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)

Which means if I want to increase one muscle a half inch, the rest of the body has to increase. (Pumping Iron; writing credit: George Butler; Charles Gaines)

To increase finance ("Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"; performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Temporary tax increase (references; author: unknown)

When riding a dead horse (government), try harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. (references; author: unknown)

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Aging Without Growing Old: Take Charge of Your Health As Your Years Increase (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Alicethenics: Exercises to Increase Freedom of Movement After Breast Surgery (reference)

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Music

• The Joy of Gardening: A Fun Way to Increase Your Enjoyment (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wheaton Tools PL200A Extensions to Increase Gauge Capacity to 81" (2-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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PET scan on an 11-year-old boy with hemophilia and AIDS. Before treatment subject was confused and somnolent. These symptoms were resolved with AZT therapy. The increase in green and red areas after treatment denotes a rise in glucose metabolism, indicating an improvement in brain function.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is french toast made with whole grain bread to increase fiber. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30.Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

The hairs act to increase the levels of sensitivity experienced by the wasp to environmental conditions such as wind direction, moisture, and temperature.Credit: CDC.

Sideroblasts are erythroblasts with fine, iron-containing granules in the cytoplasm. Normal sideroblasts show random iron deposits, typically 1-5, in the cytoplasm. Abnormal sideroblasts show an increase of granular iron deposits around the nucleus.Credit: CDC.

Western Wildfires Increase Throughout August.Credit: NASA.

Deteriorating marsh - ponds increase in size as marsh disappears.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Observing party on a barrier island. Tall hydro signal built to increase offshore range for visual control.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The restoration site - post restoration. Here the site is seen on an outgoing tide. The restoration increased the tidal range of the upstream side of the creek so that it was roughly equivalent to the downstream side. The culvert measured approximately 5' x 8' and was designed to provide appropriate hydrologic conditions to increase productive fish habitat.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An aerial view of the restoration area shows where the fish ladder was installed. The ladder was installed to increase spawning habitat for Alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus and Blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Delicate crinoid can orient towards the current to increase food capture.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To which let me add, that he who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to speak much within compass) ten times more than those which are yielded by an acre of land of an equal richness lying waste in common. (Second Treatise of Government)

In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. (reference)

The number of gendarmes and employees or officials of the local or municipal police may only be increased to an extent corresponding to the increase of population since 1913 in the districts or municipalities in which they are employed. (reference)

If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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She might have prevented the indulgence and increase of such sentiments.

He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred.

In a little time I observed the noise of flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign post on a windy day.

Or, if you choose to go farther, it will not be unwise, for I have found the increase of fair bait to be very nearly as the squares of the distances.

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Health

Training to increase the number of TB researchers. (references)

These fatty acids increase the risk of gallstones. (references)

Apparent steady increase in domestic ETEC outbreaks. (references)

Business

In January 1999 a 10% increase was permitted. (references)

As new car purchases increase so does auto theft. (references)

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

Children

Marshall Islands

Child abuse and neglect were considered to be on the increase. (references)

Jordan

Declining economic conditions have caused the number of these children to increase steadily over the last 10 years. (references)

Venezuela

Substandard conditions contribute to the increase in preventable diseases that are leading causes of infant mortality. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

However, readership of on-line newspapers continued to increase. (references)

Yemen

Also in September, students in Taiz governorate demonstrated against an increase in university fees. (references)

Sweden

In March the country joined the Schengen Group, which led to an increase in the number of asylum seekers. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Import growth outpaced the increase in exports. (references)

Greece

In 2000 it recorded an output increase of 1.5 percent. (references)

Hong Kong

The HA's expenditures on drugs will continue to increase. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

These figures again reflected an increase over the previous reporting cycle. (references)

Moldova

This provision for judicial tenure is designed to increase judicial independence. (references)

Burma

Since September there has been an increase in the number of satellite receiver sales. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

Politically, the indigenous groups remained fragmented, and there was little agreement among the Mayan groups on common goals or strategies to increase their political representation and power. (references)

Indonesia

Some critics claim that transmigration has been used as a political tool to increase the number of nonindigenous persons in certain areas in part to preclude secessionist movements by indigenous people. (references)

Malaysia

In May 2000, the Sarawak state assembly passed amendments to the state land code that the state government stated would increase the rights of indigenous people to exert control over their traditional lands. (references)

Minorities

Germany

Neighbors have expressed concerns about an increase in traffic if visitors come to attend services at the mosque. (references)

Poland

The goals of the program are to increase the number of Roma completing high school, help fight unemployment, and improve health care and safety for Roma. (references)

India

Under the Act, 996 cases were filed in Tamil Nadu and 1,254 cases in Karnataka in 2000. Human rights NGO's allege that caste violence is on the increase. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

Child labor continued to increase. (references)

RUSSIA

Many of these controls are designed to increase budget revenues. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

Recurrent revenue for 2001-2002 is projected to increase to $1,030 million. (references)

Political Rights

Mexico

The PAN has utilized more informal methods to increase female registration. (references)

Colombia

In March 2000, a quota law to increase the number of women in high-level public positions went into effect. (references)

Macau

Elections are held every 4 years and the number of legislators is to increase gradually in subsequent elections. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

These percentages will increase yearly through 2009. (references)

Brazil

With renovated regulations, it is expected that enforcement will increase. (references)

Japan

The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) offers loans designed to increase imports into Japan. (references)

Travel

Chad

Increase liquid intake of boiled, filtered water. (references)

Uae

Local laws permit rents to increase 10% annually. (references)

Chad

Crime appears to increase during times of political and economic instability. (references)

Women

Guatemala

Sexual offenses and prostitution continued to increase. (references)

Malaysia

Police attribute the increase to more vigorous enforcement efforts. (references)

China

Discriminatory hiring practices appear to be on the increase as unemployment rises. (references)

Worker Rights

Fiji

The workers received a nominal pay increase; however, the strike attracted media attention. (references)

Angola

CGSILA continued to demand a minimum wage increase and better working conditions during the year. (references)

Venezuela

Fringe benefits that are added to these minimum figures generally increase wages by about one-third. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Increase

Expressions using "increase": be on the increase ♦ capital increase ♦ cost increase ♦ demographic increase ♦ escalate increase ♦ fare increase ♦ increase gradually ♦ increase in numbers ♦ increase in size ♦ increase in value ♦ increase in weight ♦ increase of capital ♦ increase of population ♦ increase of price ♦ increase one's pace ♦ increase one's speed ♦ increase output ♦ increase price ♦ increase sales ♦ increase tenfold ♦ increase the strength ♦ increase the value of ♦ Increase twist ♦ merit increase ♦ natural increase ♦ on the increase ♦ pay increase ♦ population increase ♦ price increase ♦ salary increase ♦ see increase ♦ wage increase. Additional references.

Beginning with "increase": increase-in.

Ending with "increase": pay-increase, per-cent-increase, tax-increase.

Afrikaan

styg (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, climb, get, get up, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Albanian

zmadhoj (aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, extend, heighten, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, redouble, salt, stretch), zmadhim (aggrandizement, amplification, augment, enhancement, enlargement, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, power, rise, swelling), zhvilloj (develop, drive, elaborate, evolve, expand, grow, hold, navigate, prosecute, wage), shumëzoj (multiply), shumëzim (multiplication), shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), shtim (accession, accretion, addition, augment, augmentation, build up, enhancement, extension, gain, growth, inclusion, increment, insertion, intensification, interest, multiplication, proliferation, rise), rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), rrit (add to, augment, boost, breed, bring up, enhance, expand, extend, grow, heighten, hike, improve, intensify, keep, maximize, mother, raise, up), pjellë (litter, offspring, product, scion), pjell (bring forth, calve, farrow, fawn, foal, gender, give birth, litter, pig, procreate, produce, whelp), përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin), ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake), forcim (consolidation, fortifying, strengthening). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعاظم (accession, accretion, boom, build up, intension, mount, swank, wax), ‏ريع (income, rent), ‏أنمى (develop), ‏إشتد (build up, grow, heighten, intensify, strengthen), ‏ازدياد, ‏ذرية (breed, generation, lineage, offspring, parentage, progeny, race, seed), ‏علاوة (allowance, bonus, perquisite, premium), ‏ربح (account, bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win), ‏زيادة (addition, augment, augmentation, boost, enhancement, excess, expansion, growing, increment, over, overflow, overmuch, plethora, plus, raise, redundance, redundancy, rise, superfluity, top up), ‏فائدة (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, interest, living, pay off, pay-book, profit, scoop, use, usefulness, usury, utility, welfare, worth), ‏تزايد (superfat), ‏تكاثر (breed, generation, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏غلة (crop, cut, fruit, harvest, produce, product), ‏نما (develop, expand, flower, gather, grow, prosper, shoot, thrive, unfold), ‏نمو (accretion, development, evolution, expansion, gathering, growth, outgrowth, prosperity, sprouting, upgrowth), ‏كبر (aggrandize, amplify, augment, bigness, bulkiness, enlarge, grow, grow old, grow up, magnify), ‏زاد (add, augment, boost, compound, dispense with, enhance, extend, get dearer, grow, heighten, jump, provisions, push up, put up with smth., supplement, swell, victuals). (various references)

Aymara

irjhataña (to increase). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нарастване (access, augmentation, enlargement, growth, increment, rise, upgrowth), печалба (catch, earnings, gain, income, increment, lucre, plunder, plus, prize, profit, spoil, win, yield), повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, heft, key up, levitate, lift, moot, pick up, prefer, present, pull up, raise, rear, start, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, uplift, upraise), повишавам (advance, aggrandize, elevate, enhance, erect, heighten, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, rack, raise, up), повишавам се (heighten), повишаване (aggrandizement, enhancement, promoting, promotion, raising), покачване (enhancement, escalation, raising, rally, rise), прираст (accession, accretion, growth, increment), продукт (artefact, artifact, child, growth, outgrowth, product, production), лихва (dividend, interest), плодя се (breed, multiply, propagate, spawn), нараствам (accrete, accrue, grow, run up, thicken), усилване (aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, enhancement, exacerbation, intensification), качвам (bring up, emplane, enplane, entrain, ride, ship, take out), размножавам се (breed, procreate, pullulate, spawn), размножаване (breeding, generation, multiplication, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning), раста (grow, lengthen, vegetate, wax), растеж (growth, upgrowth, vegetation), увеличавам (accrete, accumulate, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, enlarge, expand, improve, magnify, multiply, put up, swell), увеличаване (access, accumulation, aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, enlargement, expansion, increment), увеличение (accession, accretion, amplification, blowup, enlargement, expansion, gain, increment, magnification, progress, rising, swelling), усилвам (amplify, augment, exacerbate, exalt, exasperate, fortify, heighten, intensify, magnify, nurse, piece in, potentiate, sharpen, stiffen, strengthen, swell, tone up, zip), множене. (various references)

Chinese 

茁 (sprout), 益 (benefit), 提高 (raise), 增長 (grow), 增量, 增添 (add to). (various references)

Czech

zvýšit se (ameliorate, climb, step up), zvýšení (enhancement, hike, improvement, increment), zostřit se, zesílit (become stronger, enforce, fill out, grow strong, grow stronger, intensify, magnify, reinforce, strengthen, turn up), vzrùstat (be on the increase, build up, built up, quicken), vzrùst (accumulation, aggrandizement, growth, rise, stature), rozmnožení, rùst (accretion, grow, grow up, growth, plant, spindle, upgrowth, vegetate), prohloubit se (deepen), přibývání, přírùstek (acquisition, addition, gain, growth, improvement, increment), narùst, mohutnìt (develop, swell), množit se (breed, multiply). (various references)

Danish

tiltagende (accession). (various references)

Dutch

verheffen (advance, lever, lift, raise), ophogen (advance, construction of an embankment, filling, forming of an embankment, raise). (various references)

Esperanto

plimultiĝo, pliigi, pliiĝi (augment, grow), pligrandigo (enlargement), pligrandigi (augment, enlarge), pligrandiĝo (enlargement), pligrandiĝi, plifortiĝi (freshen), plialtigi (raise), plialtiĝi (ascend, go up). (various references)

Faeroese

vaksa um (aggrandize, augment, enlarge), økja (aggrandize, augment, enlarge). (various references)

Farsi 

توسعه دادن (Develop, Enlarge, Expand), توانگرکردن (Enrich), ترفیع دادن (Pedestal, Promote), ترقی (Ascent, Boost, Development, Growth, Increment, Jump, Lift, Pickup, Procession, Progress, Promotion, Rise), زیادکردن (Add, Augment, Enhance, Heighten, Propagate, Raise), زیادشدن (Augment, Gain, Grow, Mount, Proliferate, Wax), افزودن (Add, Adjoin, Aggrandize, Amplify, Append, Augment, Eke, Enhance, Imp, Inset, Redouble), افزایش 1, اضافه (Access, Excess, Surplus), رشد (Adolescence, Growth, Pickup). (various references)

Finnish

lisä (addition), enetä (grow, rise), karttua (accumulate, grow), karttuminen, kartuttaa (accumulate, add to, augment, heap, pile), kasvaa (accrue, grow, growing up, to take roots, vegetate), kasvu (accrementition, accretion, gain in weight, growth, growth rate, weight gain), kiihtyä (become agitated, flare up, get excited), kohota (advance, ascend, be promoted, climb, go up, rise), korottaa (advance, enhance, heighten, promote, raise), eneneminen, koventaa (harden, make harder, make heavier), yltyä (get more intence, grow in intensity), lisääntyä (breed, multiply, reproduce themselves), lisääntyminen (build-up, build-up effect, multiplication, multiplying, propagation, reproduction), lisätä (add, attach, augment, bring ... up to, heighten, intensify, supplement, to append), lisäys (addition, enhancement, growth, rider), nousta (arise, get into, get up, rise, stand up, take off), nousu (advance, ascent, fresh, freshet, lead, rise, rising, slope, take off, upgrade, upwards grade), suurentaa (enlarge, magnify, raise, widen), suurentua (become larger, enlarge, extend, grow, widen), suureta, ylennys (advancement, promotion, rise), korotus (enhancement, rise). (various references)

French

augmenter, redoubler, agrandir, accroissement (increment), accroître. (various references)

Frisian

oanhelje (adopt, cite, freshen, gain, put on weight, quote), oanboazje (freshen), ferheegje (advance, raise), fergrutting (aggrandizement, enlargement), fergrutsje (aggrandize, augment, enlarge). (various references)

German

erhöhen (accelerate, advance, be aggravated, bring up, bump up, enhance, enlarge, exalt, heighten, improve, increment, inflate, inflation, mark up, put up, quicken, raise, scale up, sharpen, step up, to exalt, to increase, to increment), Zunahme (accession, accretion, bulge, crescendo, enlargement, gain, growth, growth factor, increase in assets, increase in liabilities, increment, rise, upsurge), zunehmen (accelerate, augment, become obese, build up, expand, gain, gain weight, gather, grow, intensify, pick up, put on, put on weight, to accelerate, to be on the increase, wax), Vermehrung (accession, accretion, aggrandizement, asexual reproduction, augmentation, breeding, enlargement, growth, multiplication, multiplying, proliferation, propagation, reproduction), vermehren (accrete, aggrandize, amplify, augment, breed, develop, enhance, expand, multiply, to accrete, to aggrandize, to augment, to increase, to increase (in)), Vergrößerung (aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, blow up, blowup, deepening, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, magnification), erhöhung (acceleration, elevation, enhancement, enlargement, exaltation, heightening, Hill, improvement, increment, intensification, raise, raising, ridge, rise). (various references)

Greek 

αύξηση (accrementition, accretion, accrual, accruement, aggrandizement, augmentation, growth, increase in assets, increase in liabilities, increment, raise, rise, upswing), αυξάνω (accrue, amplify, augment, boost, grow, heighten, proliferate, raise, wax). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרבב, רבי�" (generation, propagation, reproduction), �'�"יל�" (accretion, growth), �"�'�"ל�" (enhancement, enlargement, magnification), �"עלא�" (elevation, lifting, promotion, raise, raising), �"וספ�" (addition, extra, raise, supplement), �"תרבות (multiplication, proliferation), �"ת�'ברות (strengthening), תרבית (breeding, culture, progeny), רבוי (amplification, breeding, multiplicity, plurality), תוספת (accompaniment, addendum, addition, appendage, extra, increment, rider, supplement, tag), ל�"מאי�", לרבות (become great, enlarge, grow, including, inclusive of, multiply), לרוב (abundantly, at most, mostly, multiply), ל�'בור (be mighty, beat, gain the upper hand, overcome, overpower, prevail, worst), ל�'�"ול (exceed, grow, wax), ל�"�'ות (multiply), ל�"רבות (amplify, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, magnify, multiply), ל�"�'�"יל (amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, expand, magnify, maximize, redouble), ל�"תרבות (breed, multiply, proliferate, reproduce), ת�'בורת (reinforcement, supplement). (various references)

Hungarian

többszörösés (accession), szaporulat (accession, growth, increment), szaporít (breed, propagate, to augment, to multiply, to propagate), sokszorosítás (accession, reproduction), nagyobbítás (aggrandizement, augmentation, enlargement, magnification), nagyítás (aggrandizement, amplification, blow up, enlargement, enlarging, exaggeration, hyperbole, hyperbolism, power, projection print), nagyít (aggrandize, augment, blow up, enlarge, exaggerate, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to enlarge, to exaggerate), növel (enhance, extend, raise, redouble, to aggravate, to augment, to darken counsel, to elevate, to enhance, to enlarge, to exacerbate, to extend, to gear up, to heighten, to improve, to redouble, to send up, to step up), növekedés (accession, accretion, augmentation, gain, growing, growth, heightening, increment, rise, upgrowth, vegetating), nôvekszik (accrue), nô (accrue, grow, woman). (various references)

Indonesian

memperbesar (augment, magnify, maximize), membesar (dilate, grow up), membengkak (bloat), berbesar-besar. (various references)

Irish

méadaigh. (various references)

Italian

ingrandire (aggrandise, aggrandize, augment, become larger, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, grow, magnify), aumento (addition, advance, aggrandisement, aggrandizement, augmentation, boom, boost, enhancement, enlargement, gain, growing, increment, marking up, markup, mark-up, raise, raising, revaluation, rise, write up), aumentare (add, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, compound, eke, enhance, escalate, gain, gather, grow, heighten, increments, Mount, put on, put up, raise, rise, step up, swell, to increase). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨張 (expansion, growth, swelling), 繁殖 (breed, multiply, propagation), 増殖 (multiplication, propagation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞうきょう (augment, reinforce), ぞうしょく (multiplication, propagation), ぞうし�" (advance, promoting), ぞうか (addition, artificial flower making, artificial flowers, miscellaneous poems, the Creator, the Universe), ぼうちょう (attendance, auditing, counterespionage, counterintelligence, expansion, growth, hearing, listening, protection against the tide, swelling), ふやし, ばい (be doubled, double, -fold, times, twice), かぞう (addition, household possessions), か (addition, ancient Chinese weapon, article counter, beautiful, counter for chapters, department, excellent, good, mosquito, passable, provisional, question mark, rack, section, tentative, unit of equipment), は�"しょく (breed, multiply, propagation). (various references)

Korean 

증가 (increasing). (various references)

Manx

sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostrate, prostration, range, rick, spin out, sprain, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretch out, stretching, tension, uncoil), mooadys (amount, amplitude, artificialness, augmentation, capacity, dimension, extravagance, greatness, huge, largeness, magnitude, size, stature), mooadaghey (aggravation, amplify, augment, develop, developing, enlarge, escalate, escalation, exaggerate, exaggeration, exaggerator, expand, expansion, extend, extension, gain, grow, increment, magnification, magnify, maximize, mount, multiplication, multiply, swell), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquish, relinquishment, represent, retire, set on fire, surrender), brash (a good quantity, brace, extra, fit, impetous, paroxysm, spare), bishaghey (accession, accession of funds, accrue, develop, development, expand, expansion, growth, multiplication, multiply, prosper, thrive, wax, wax as moon), ardjaghey (change up, climb, inflation, level up, lift, mount up, outbid, overbid, pitch, prefer, preferment, promote, promotion, put up, ramp, steepen, worsen, worsen as fever), aavooadaghey (magnify, redouble). (various references)

Norwegian

vekst (growth), tilta, forhøye (heighten), økning (enhancement, gain, increment), øke (boost, enhance, gather). (various references)

Papiamen

oumentá (aggrandize, augment, enlarge), amplia (aggrandize, augment, enlarge). (various references)

Pig Latin

increaseay

Polish

zwiększyć się. (various references)

Portuguese

aumento (accession, accretion, accrual, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augment, augmentation, elope, enlargement, expansion, explosive, extra, gain, growth, increment, magnification, marl, raise, rise, spread, swell, swelling), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, gain, get about, go up, grow, heighten, inflated, intensify, lengthen, magnify, markdown, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax). (various references)

Romanian

intensifica (enhance, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, intensify, redouble, renew, sharpen, swell), înmulţire (multiplication, propagation), accentua (accent, accentuate, emphasize, sharpen, strengthen, stress, underline), adãugire (addition, adjunction, affix), adaos (accession, addendum, addition, adjunct, adjunction, admixture, alloy, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, attachment, augmentation, codicil, make-weight, rider, rise, schedule, sequel, supplement), augmenta (augment), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax), creşte în, creşte la numãr, îmbogãţi (enrich), favoriza (abet, advantage, conduce, encourage, Favor, favour, forward, further, grace, patronize, prosper, speed, support), sporire (accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, development, enhancement, enlargement), mãri (add, advance, aggrandize, amplify, augment, better, broach, broaden, carry, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, greaten, improve, intensify, largen, lift, magnify, multiply, piece out, raise, reinforce, splay, step up, swell, widen), mãrire (accretion, aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, authority, development, enlargement, gain, glory, grandeur, magnification, rise, splendor, splendour, state, sway), promova (advance, forward, further, pass, prefer, promote), se înmulţi (be rife, breed, multiply, pullulate, spawn, thicken, wax rife), se dezvolta (breed, develop, evolve, grow, progress, shape), se mãri (accrue, augment, enlarge, greaten, grow, largen, lengthen, stretch, swell), spor (abundance, addition, advancement, benefit, gain, germ, growth, headway, increment, progress, spore, use), spori (accrue, accumulate, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, heighten, improve, intensify, make, multiply, propagate, spurt, step up, thicken), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, growth, heft, husbandry, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge). (various references)

Russian 

расти (accrue, achieve momentum, gather momentum, grow, thicken, vegetate, wax), надбавить (add), надбавка, набавлять, нарасти (grow), нарастание (accretion, increment), возрасти (grow, rise), множить (multiply), возрастать (rise), усиливаться (achieve momentum, become stronger, fade in, gain momentum, gather momentum, grow in momentum, intensify, strengthen, swell), рост (development, growth, height, rise, stature, upgrowth), умножить (multiply), увеличивать (add to, aggrandize, amplify, amplifying, augment, augmenting, deepen, enhance, enlarge, increment, magnify, multiply, pile up), увеличиваться (accrue, grow, multiply), увеличение (accretion, aggrandizement, aggrandizements, agumentation, amplification, augmentation, enlargement, gain, growth, magnification, multiplication, rise), увеличение объема (increment), усиливать (amplify, deepen, escalate, exasperate, give an edge, intensify, redouble, reenforce, reinforce, strengthen, turn up), возрастание (increment). (various references)

Scottish

f� s (accrue, become, empty, get, grow, hollow, increasing, void, waste), cinneas (crop, growing thing, growth), cinn (grow, See <A HREF="mf02.html#ceann">ceann</A>, spring from). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uveličati (magnify), uvećati (aggrandize, enlarge), povećati (augment, blow up, enhance, magnify, pad, up), povećanje (augment, augmentation, enhancement, increment, padding), porast (accretion, boost, jump, mark up, multiplication, pickup, rise, upgrowth, upsurge), obogatiti (enrich). (various references)

Spanish

aumentar (accrue, add to, advance, amplify, augment, boost, bulk, develop, enhance, expand, extend, freshen, gain, gear up, get up, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, improve, inflate, intensify, jack up, magnify, mark up, Mount, pile on, put up, step up, swell, up, upturn), ampliación (aggrandizement, amplification, annex, blowup, blow-up, development, enlargement, expansion, extension, projection print), aumento (accession, accretion, augmentation, build up, expansion, extension, gain, growth, hike, improvement, increment, magnification, putting on, raise, rise, upbeat, upturn), acrecentar (accrue, add to, aggrandize, augment, promote, to increase). (various references)

Swedish

tilltaga (gain, wax), föröka (augment, multiply, propagate), ökning (advance, augmentation, bulge, enlargement, expansion, gain, growth, increment, rise, rising, step up, upturn), öka (add to, augment, compound, enhance, extend, gain, grow, heighten, inflame, inflate, intensify, put on, redouble, smarten, supplement). (various references)

Turkish

artma (accession, gain, improvement, increment, pickup, scaling, step up, swell), çoğalmak (accrue, augment, breed, gain, go off, heighten, mount up, multiply, proliferate, pullulate, reproduce), çoğaltma (aggrandizement, augmentation, multiplication), çoğaltmak (aggrandize, augment, clone, copy, manifold, multiply, propagate, reproduce, scale up), üreme (breeding, proliferation, propagation, reproduction, reproductive, seminal, semination), üremek (be reproduced, increase in numbers, proliferate, propagate, pullulate), agrandísman (aggrandizement, enlargement), çoğalma (accrual, increment, multiplication, proliferation, propagation, reproduction), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), zam yapmak (balloon, raise), artmak (accrete, accrue, advance, ascend, augment, be left, be left over, deepen, duplicate, go up, harden, heighten, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), büyüme (accretion, accrual, augmentation, development, enlargement, expansion, growing, growth, juvenescence), büyümek (accrue, augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, extend, flourish, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), yavrulama (birth, fall, propagation), artış (accrual, addition, advance, augmentation, climbing, enhancement, explosion, increment, jump, raise, rise, rising, step up, up). (various references)

Turkmen 

u, kцpeltmek (multiply), kцpelmek (grow), bulukmak, artmak (peel), artdyrma (multiply). (various references)

Ukranian 

розмножуватися (breed, multiply, proliferate, propagate, pullulate), зростати (come on, go up, steepen), зростання (access, accession, accretion, concrescence, development, expansion, growing, upgrowth, upturn, vegetation), збільшуватися (accede, accrue, aggrandize, enlarge, expand, grow, lengthen, multiply, run up, vegetate, wax), збільшувати (add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, deepen, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, magnify, multiply, pile up), приріст (access, accession, accretion, augmentation, growth, increment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tăng thêm số lượng tăng thêm, sự tăng (upturn). (various references)

Welsh

ychwanegu (add, append, augment), mwyhau (aggrandize, enlarge, magnify), cynyddu, cynnydd (growth, progress), chwyddo (bloat, magnify, swell), amlhau (abound, multiply), amlhad (increasing). (various references)

adauge, adaugeat, adaugeo, adcrescens, addam, addant, addar, addara, addas, addat, addatur, addens, addent, addentes, addentur, addere, adderetis, adderetur, addes, addet, addetis, addetur, addi, addiderint, addiderunt, addideruntque, addidimus, addidit, addiditque, addit, additae, addite, additi, additis, addo, addunt, adincrescant, aggerem, aggeres, aggero, amplificare, amplificarent, amplificatus, amplificaverunt, amplificemus, amplifices, amplificet, amplio, auctum, auctus, auctusque, augeo, augmenta, augmentum, autus, congeminansque, crescamus, crescant, crescas, crescat, crescatis, cresce, crescebant, crescebat, crescebatque, crescens, crescent, crescente, crescentem, crescentes, crescentis, crescere, cresceret, crescet, crescit, crescite, cresco, crescunt, creta, cretae, creverant, creverat, creverit, creveritis, creverunt, crevisse, crevisset, crevit, crevitque, dilatatio, dilato, fructificabunt, fructificans, fructificant, fructificantes, fructificaremus, fructificat, fructificavi, fructificavit, increbresco, incrementa, incrementum, increscat, increscere, increverit, increverunt, increvit, ingemino, intumesco, multiplica, multiplicabantur, multiplicabatur, multiplicabimini, multiplicabis, multiplicabit, multiplicabitur, multiplicabo, multiplicabunt, multiplicabuntur, multiplicamini, multiplicans, multiplicantur, multiplicare, multiplicaret, multiplicari, multiplicas, multiplicasti, multiplicat, multiplicata, multiplicatae, multiplicatam, multiplicati, multiplicatis, multiplicatur, multiplicaturum, multiplicatus, multiplicaveris, multiplicaveritis, multiplicaverunt, multiplicavi, multiplicavique, multiplicavit, multiplicemini, multiplicentur, multipliceris, multiplices, multiplicet, multiplicetque, multiplicetur, progressio, progressus, proventus, supercrescit. (various references)

frâdh, fradatha, gaonem, uruthem, vãthwa, varedathem, vaxshaêca, vaxshat, vaxshathemca. (various references)

acreue. (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 "increase": increased, increaser, increasers, increases. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Increase" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: increa, increas, increaseth, incres, uncrease. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arcsine, arsenic, careens, carnies, caserne, recanes, sincere.

-2 letters: aeries, arisen, arsine, cairns, caners, careen, caries, carnie, casein, casern, censer, cerias, cerise, cranes, crease, easier, encase, ericas, incase, nacres, nereis, nieces, rances, ranees, recane, screen, seance, secern, seiner, seneca, serein, serine.

-3 letters: acnes, acres, aerie, airns, anise, areic, arise, cains, cairn, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, cease, cense, ceres, ceria, cines, cires, crane, cries, earns, erase, erica, ernes, escar, nacre, narcs, nares, naric, naris, nears, nicer, niece, races, rains, raise, rance, ranee, ranis, reins, resin, rices, rinse, risen, saice, saner, saree, sarin, scare, scena, scene, scree, seine, serac, serai, serin, since, siree, siren, snare, sneer.

-4 letters: aces, acne, acre, ains, airn, airs, anes, anis, arcs, ares, arse, asci, cain, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, case, cees, cere, cine, cire, cris, earn, ears, ease, eras, erne, erns, ices, ires, narc, near, nice, race, rain, rani, rase, recs, rees, rein, reis, rias, rice, rins, rise, sain, sane, sari, scan, scar, sear, seen, seer, sene, sera, sere, sice, sine, sire.

-5 letters: ace, ain, air, ais, ane, ani, arc, are, ars, can, car, cee, cis, ear, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ice, ins, ire, nae, nee, ran, ras, rec, ree, rei, res, ria, rin, sac, sae, sea, sec, see, sei, sen, ser, sic, sin, sir, sri.

+1 letter: ardencies, canneries, centiares, cisternae, creatines, errancies, increased, increaser, increases, iterances, larcenies, narceines, nectaries, reliances.

+2 letters: ancestries, arecolines, catenaries, centauries, centralise, certainest, chanceries, creakiness, creaminess, deaconries, decenaries, decreasing, endarchies, epicureans, franchisee, grievances, increasers, intercaste, interfaces, interlaces, interspace, knackeries, linecaster, nectarines, numeracies, percalines, racinesses, recoinages, refinances, regnancies, resistance, serviceman, transience, verdancies.

+3 letters: aberrancies, acridnesses, ancientries, antisecrecy, apprentices, archenemies, ascertained, auctioneers, awestricken, baronetcies, cabinetries, cadaverines, cantilevers, carabineers, carpentries, centenaries, centralised, centralises, centralizes, ceremonials, certainties, chandeliers, chandleries, charinesses, chicaneries, cinemagoers, considerate, cranberries, crazinesses, creatinines, credentials, deracinates, desecrating, desecration, discernable, enfranchise, execrations, franchisees, gracileness, grandnieces, grecianizes, incinerates, increasable, inerrancies, insectaries, intercensal, interspaced, interspaces, linebackers, linecasters, machineries, mechanizers, mercenaries, merchandise, necessaries, necessarily, parcenaries, pentarchies, preachiness, precreasing, prefinances, pregnancies, reaccession, reascending, recanalizes, recessional, recreations, recusancies, reinsurance, relevancies, remittances, renaissance, renunciates, researching, resistances, secondaries, sergeancies, tetracaines, transceiver, transiences, transpierce.

+4 letters: abecedarians, absorbencies, acquirements, actinometers, advertencies, buccaneerish, carrageenins, celebrations, centenarians, centralities, centralizers, cerebrations, chanticleers, cheeseparing, chinaberries, commanderies, commentaries, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, considerable, containerise, craftinesses, cragginesses, crankinesses, creakinesses, creaminesses, creativeness, crenelations, decarbonizes, decreasingly, degeneracies, deliverances, deprecations, desecrations, disenchanter, disseverance, electricians, enfranchised, enfranchises, epicureanism, eviscerating, evisceration, exorbitances, frankincense, fricasseeing, generatrices, glycerinates, greenbackism, incarcerates, incendiaries, inheritances, innumeracies, inobservance, inspectorate, intercalates, interchanges, intolerances, intraspecies, inveteracies, irrelevances, itinerancies, kitchenwares, lectionaries, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandizes, metacentrics, narcolepsies, necromancies, neorealistic, neurasthenic, overissuance, permanencies, precessional, predeceasing, predicaments, rancidnesses, reaccessions, reactiveness, recessionals, recessionary, recriminates, redundancies, reeducations, reescalating, reescalation, regeneracies, reincarnates, reinoculates, reinsurances, reluctancies, renaissances, repugnancies, revaccinates, ribonuclease, rubefacients, secretionary, sectarianize, servicewoman, supercabinet, surveillance, transceivers, transiencies, transpierced, transpierces, trenchancies, verticalness.

+5 letters: accelerations, acetonitriles, actinometries, aeromechanics, aeromedicines, affenpinscher, airsicknesses, antielectrons, antirecession, apperceptions, archegoniates, ascertainable, ascertainment, astringencies, beneficiaries, bicentenaries, cabinetmakers, candleberries, carsicknesses, cerebrospinal, ceremonialism, ceremonialist, chancelleries, chancellories, cheeseparings, clearinghouse, cogenerations, colinearities, comradeliness, confederacies, conservancies, conservatives, conservatized, conservatizes, conservatoire, considerables, considerately, containerised, containerises, containerizes, containerless, contrarieties, conversancies, conversazione, coparcenaries, cordialnesses, cordwaineries, coresidential, counterimages, craniometries, credentialism, crenellations, decarbonizers, decelerations, decentralizes, dechlorinates, denuclearizes, depreciations, determinacies, disappearance, discrepancies, disenchanters, disseverances, documentaries, epicureanisms, eviscerations, exacerbations, exercitations, ferricyanides, ferrocyanides, frankincenses, franticnesses, geometricians, gracilenesses, graphicnesses, greenbackisms, gynecocracies, handkerchiefs, heartsickness, impermanences, inadvertences, inconsiderate, indescribable, inobservances, inoperculates, inspectorates, intemperances, interchangers, intercompares, intersocietal, intransigence, intricateness, irascibleness, irrelevancies, leprechaunish, letterspacing, lucrativeness, lyricalnesses, marchionesses, mercenariness, merchandisers, mercurialness, necessitarian, neurasthenics, nondecreasing, nonresistance, oneiromancies, overissuances, overreactions, overreliances, pertinacities, porcelainizes, preachinesses, preanesthetic, precipitances, predominances, presanctified, proteinaceous, radicalnesses, raunchinesses, reactionaries, recognizances, reconsolidate, recreationist, recuperations, redecorations, rededications, reescalations, ribonucleases, scenographies, scrappinesses, scrawninesses, secondariness, sectarianized, sectarianizes, semiporcelain, spermatogenic, starchinesses, superagencies, supercabinets, surveillances, technocracies, terpsichorean, tetracyclines, theoreticians, uncertainness, uncertainties, underachieves, undescribable, unnecessarily, unserviceable, veraciousness.

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