disincrease
disincrease noun: the reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
Noun
disincrease (plural disincreases)
- The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
- It takes brisk, frosty weather for this lest the meat should spoil before being salted down and put away; and the darkies say it is bad luck to kill hogs except in “the disincrease" of the moon.1902, Table Talk - Volume 17, page 41
- In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.1970, Recusant History - Volumes 9-10, page 263
Verb
disincrease (third-person singular simple present disincreases, present participle disincreasing, simple past and past participle disincreased)
- To diminish; to decrease in size or number.
- My people have been so unhappy for a long time they wish now to disincrease, instead of multiply.1883, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, page 48
- The difference between the large and the small vocabulary is evidently not only that the proportion of words containing the component disincreases, but also that the analysis is much more complete as the vocabulary is increased.1963, Gothenburg Studies in English - Volume 15, page 20
Examples of disincrease in a sentence
- From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase of 125 in deaths from consumption.1898, New York (State). Department of Health, Annual Report - Volume 18, page 490:
- Coadministration in individuals on immunosuppressant doses of corticosteroids can result in more extensive vaccine-associated rash or disincreased potential for neurotoxicity and/or nephrotoxicity.2000, Drug Interactions Guide:
Forms of disincrease
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | disincreases |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | disincreases |
| present participle | disincreasing |
| past participle | disincreased |
| past | disincreased |
Origin of disincrease
From dis- + increase.
Questions about disincrease
- What does disincrease mean?
- Disincrease means the reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
- How do you use disincrease in a sentence?
- From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase of 125 in deaths from consumption.
- What part of speech is disincrease?
- Disincrease can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of disincrease?
- The plural of disincrease is disincreases.
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