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Plural of decrease

regular plural

The plural of decrease is decreases.

Forms of decrease

Singulardecrease /dɪˈkɹiːs/
Pluraldecreases /dɪˈkɹiː.sɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Decreases in a sentence

  • As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.From the entry rise
  • In fact, our research shows that TPS actually decreases the pressures driving such migration.2023 October 5, Ben Helms, David Leblang, Tom Jawetz, “Opinion: A smart and humane answer on immigration”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry TPS
  • If the tension of the bowstring decreases, the bow wood relaxes equally.2023, Rolf Eichinger, Kerstin Klink, “The Assessment in KLINEA” (chapter 9), in Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: Diagnostics and Therapy…. From the entry gelosis
  • It has been shown that including more disease-causing serotypes decreases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease.2022 May 31, Madeleine Armstrong, “GSK goes back to its vaccine bread and butter”, in Evaluate Vantage, retrieved 09 May 2023. From the entry valency
  • Thus β-blocker therapy decreases heart rate, cardiac contraction and myocardial oxygen consumption.2016, Anne H. Child, Diagnosis and Management of Marfan Syndrome, page 51. From the entry β-blocker

Meaning of decrease

  1. verb Of a quantity, to become smaller.
  2. verb To make (a quantity) smaller.
  3. noun An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.

Full definition of decrease

Questions about the plural of decrease

What is the plural of decrease?
The plural of decrease is decreases.
Is decrease countable?
Decrease is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decrease (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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