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increases

US/ɪnˈkɹisɪz/

increases is the plural of increase.

increases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of increase.

Meaning of increase

Noun

increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)

  1. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
    • An increase of about 30% in hits on the website.
    Synonyms:
    gain
  2. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
    • In socialist religion God was replaced by humanity, a superior creation in which the individual could find an object of love and worship: he could thus rise above his insignificant ego and experience the joy of sacrificing his own interest to the infinite increase of collective Being..1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
    Synonyms:
    enlargement
  3. Offspring, progeny.
    • That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2
  4. (crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

See all 9 meanings of increase

Words that rhyme with increases

Questions about increases

What is increases the plural of?
Increases is the plural of increase.
How do you pronounce increases?
Increases is pronounced /ɪnˈkɹisɪz/ (US).

Words near increases in the dictionary

  1. increaseful
  2. increasement
  3. increasements
  4. increaser
  5. increasers
  6. increases
  7. increasest
  8. increaseth
  9. increasing
  10. increasing function
  11. increasing functions

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