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Increase
INCRE'ASE, v.i. [L. incresco; in and cresco, to grow.]
1. To become greater in bulk or quantity; to grow; to augment; as plants. Hence, to become more in number; to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth; wealth increases by industry; heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian; a multitude increases by accession of numbers; knowledge increases with age and study; passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice.
The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another. 1 Th 3.
2. To become more violent; as, the fever increases; the pain increases; cold, wind or a storm increases.
3. To become more bright or vivid; as, the light increases.
4. To swell; to rise.
The waters increased and bore up the ark. Gen 7.
5. To swell; to become louder, as sound.
6. To become of more esteem and authority.
He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3.
7. To enlarge, as the enlightened part of the moon's disk.
INCRE'ASE, v.t. To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity or amount; as, to increase wealth or treasure; to increase a sum or value.
1. To advance in quality; to add to any quality or affection; as, to increase the strength of moral habits; to increase love, zeal or passion.
2. To extend; to lengthen; as, to increase distance.
3. To extend; to spread;as, to increase fame or renown.
4. To aggravate; as, to increase guilt or trespass.
INCRE'ASE, n. Augmentation; a growing larger; extension.
Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Isa 9.
1. Increment; profit; interest; that which is added to the original stock.
Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God. Lev 25.
2. Produce, as of land.
Then shall the earth yield her increase. Psa 67.
3. Progeny; issue; offspring.
All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam 2.
4. Generation.
5. The waxing of the moon; the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth.
Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest,if set or cut in the increase of the moon.
6. Augmentation of strength or violence; as increase of heat, love or other passion; increase of force.
7. Augmentation of degree; as increase of happiness or misery.
increase appears in definitions for these words:
Abet Abounding Acceleration Access Accession Accretion Accrue Accrument Accumulate Acme Actuate Acuition Add Addition Adopter Advantage After-eatage Aggravated Alluvium Amplify Annona Antiperistasis Appreciation Areotic Augment Augmentable Augmentation Author Auxesis Better Brace Breed Brighten Buffel Build Butter Catarrh Chart Chin-cough Cipher Climate Concentrate Concrescence Condensation Confirmation Contributory Cordial Cultivate Cultivation Damage Decrease Defluxion Diabetes Diaphoretic Digester Digestive Diminish Diminution Diuretic Double-tongued Doubled Eat Eke Eked Eking Electricity Encourage End Endearment Engross Enhance Enhanced Enhancement Enlarge Enlarged Enlargement Enlarger Ephipora Evaporation Exacerbate Exacerbation Exacerbescence Exaltation Exasperate Exasperated Exasperation Excitability Excitable Excitant Excite Excitement Executive Fall Fever Flourish Fluxion Frap Freshes Fuel Gain Gainfully Gallstone Gather Geometric Give Good Gradual Ground Grow Grower Grown Growth Handgallop Happiness Height Heightened Heightening Impletion Improvable Improve In Inconvenience Increasable Increase Increaser Increment Increscent Industry Inflame Intension Intensively Irritate Irritative Loosen Lucrative Machinery Magnifier Magnify Majoration Make Masticatory More Multiplication Multiplicative Multiplied Multiplier Multiply Nourish Nurse Onward Outrigger Pauperism Plant Pleasure Populate Positive Pretorian Productive Progress Progression Prolifically Promote Propagate Prosper Prosperous Prosperously Provoke Pulse Quantity Quickener Raise Raised Redouble Redoubled Redundant Repay Rheum Rise Root Run Runner Salivated Salivating Salivation Sanctifying Scramble Secernent Sensibly Sevenfold Sharpen Size Springing Stage Still Stimulant Stimulate Stimulation Stimulus Strengthen Strengthener Stunted Stunting Summer Superadvenient Sweep Sweeten Sweinmote Take Temperament Tenth Teutonic Thrift Thriftily Thriftiness Thrive Thrivingness Tithe Tongued Tribune Tumor Unaugmented Unincreasable Up Variable Vegetation Wax
Abet Abounding Acceleration Access Accession Accretion Accrue Accrument Accumulate Acme Actuate Acuition Add Addition Adopter Advantage After-eatage Aggravated Alluvium Amplify Annona Antiperistasis Appreciation Areotic Augment Augmentable Augmentation Author Auxesis Better Brace Breed Brighten Buffel Build Butter Catarrh Chart Chin-cough Cipher Climate Concentrate Concrescence Condensation Confirmation Contributory Cordial Cultivate Cultivation Damage Decrease Defluxion Diabetes Diaphoretic Digester Digestive Diminish Diminution Diuretic Double-tongued Doubled Eat Eke Eked Eking Electricity Encourage End Endearment Engross Enhance Enhanced Enhancement Enlarge Enlarged Enlargement Enlarger Ephipora Evaporation Exacerbate Exacerbation Exacerbescence Exaltation Exasperate Exasperated Exasperation Excitability Excitable Excitant Excite Excitement Executive Fall Fever Flourish Fluxion Frap Freshes Fuel Gain Gainfully Gallstone Gather Geometric Give Good Gradual Ground Grow Grower Grown Growth Handgallop Happiness Height Heightened Heightening Impletion Improvable Improve In Inconvenience Increasable Increase Increaser Increment Increscent Industry Inflame Intension Intensively Irritate Irritative Loosen Lucrative Machinery Magnifier Magnify Majoration Make Masticatory More Multiplication Multiplicative Multiplied Multiplier Multiply Nourish Nurse Onward Outrigger Pauperism Plant Pleasure Populate Positive Pretorian Productive Progress Progression Prolifically Promote Propagate Prosper Prosperous Prosperously Provoke Pulse Quantity Quickener Raise Raised Redouble Redoubled Redundant Repay Rheum Rise Root Run Runner Salivated Salivating Salivation Sanctifying Scramble Secernent Sensibly Sevenfold Sharpen Size Springing Stage Still Stimulant Stimulate Stimulation Stimulus Strengthen Strengthener Stunted Stunting Summer Superadvenient Sweep Sweeten Sweinmote Take Temperament Tenth Teutonic Thrift Thriftily Thriftiness Thrive Thrivingness Tithe Tongued Tribune Tumor Unaugmented Unincreasable Up Variable Vegetation Wax
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