decrease
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2.2
- noun
- /dɪˈkriːs/
:
disminución
- Some of this may result from the decrease in sample size for those issues.
- a significant decrease
- a percentage decrease
- show a decrease
How do you explain this decrease in happiness among women?
- How do you explain this decrease in happiness among women?
- Today we'll talk about a real crisis, the decrease of testosterone levels.
- And for many months and years, you would have a decrease in solar radiation.
- Yes, they found that climate change is correlated with a decrease in brain size.
- And I want to go through now why we're seeing such a great decrease in fertility today.
- And you know that this decrease in the size of transistor follows Moore's law.
- Well, yeah, there's a decrease sensing of mtor.
- So it had a little pressure decrease when I opened it.
- You keep sort of like there's a monotonic decrease of your weaknesses.
- So you've got some balance decreases here with Arvest.
- Now atrophy is decrease in muscle cell size, right, or decrease in cell size, if you will.
- Increases in domestic violence have been going up in line with the decrease in hypogamous dating.
Examples
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All right, that's an 87% decrease in daily traffic volume.
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Improved diet has been responsible for a dramatic decrease in rickets.
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What we're seeing is a decrease in the rule of law.
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Last year, the change was a 3% decrease.
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Of concern is the latest decrease in the bee population.
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There has been a fifty percent decrease in distribution costs since 1986.
Academic text (1990) -
The net result should be a decrease in the general quality of life in military regimes.
Academic text (1990) -
Historically, there has been a general decrease in academic performance in students attending this urban middle school over time.
Academic text (2011) -
Decreases in unemployment rates were associated with decreases in IDU rates.
Academic text (2011) -
Last year, the change was a decrease of 3% in the company's profits.
Synonyms
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3.2
A decrease in size, amount, degree, or price
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5.3
A decrease in how much of something is left, often until it is used up
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3.9
A sudden decrease in amount, quality or rate
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3.2
A decrease in size, amount, or value
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5.1
A decrease in size, amount, or value
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7.9
A decrease in size, amount, or importance
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3.8
A decrease in amount, size, or strength
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6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
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4.6
A decrease in amount or level, for example moving to a lower job
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4.0
A drop in the number or amount of something
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7.7
A small reduction in an amount or number
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5.2
A slow decrease in size, number, or strength
To make something less in amount, value, or level
A slow reduction in size or amount done in stages
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Decrease comes from parts that mean 'down' (de-) and 'to grow' (cresc-), the same root you see in increase and crescent, the word for the growing moon. So a decrease is like 'growing down' and means the amount something becomes smaller.