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Increase   /ɪnkrˈis/  /ˈɪnkrˌis/   Listen
Increase

noun
1.
A quantity that is added.  Synonyms: addition, gain.  "They recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
2.
A change resulting in an increase.
3.
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.  Synonyms: growth, increment.  "The growth of population"
4.
The amount by which something increases.  Synonym: increment.
5.
The act of increasing something.  Synonym: step-up.
verb
(past & past part. increased; pres. part. increasing)
1.
Become bigger or greater in amount.
2.
Make bigger or more.  "The university increased the number of students it admitted"



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"Increase" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolved that Kay's had been abominably treated, and that the deposition of Fenn must not be tolerated. Unfortunately, a house cannot do very much when it revolts. It can only show its displeasure in little things, and by an increase of rowdiness. This was the line that Kay's took. Fenn became a popular hero. Fags, until he kicked them for it, showed a tendency to cheer him whenever they saw him. Nothing could paint Mr Kay blacker in the eyes of his ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... States additional strength, and renders them in the estimation of mankind more and more worthy of recognition and independent government. Their recognition will be followed by treaties of friendship and alliance; and those treaties will give strength to the rebels and increase the embarrassments of our own government. It is the necessity of our national life that the settlement of this question should not be ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II. - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... 'as before.' It was fortified," grinned Furneaux. "That's the exact increase of nicotine. By the way, I have a sample. We can take care of him on that charge, without ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... that the machines arrived a little too late; and, when brought into service, were often found to be out of working order. Hence their employment did not supersede the private engines kept by some of the insurance offices long prior to their existence. On the contrary, owing to the increase of business which took place about this time, the different companies thought it worth their while to strengthen their former establishments, and this process continued while the parochial engines, with a few honorable exceptions, ...
— Fires and Firemen • Anon.
... the people of God. We are like those who see the clod of earth against which their foot strikes, but never lift their eyes aloft to look on the towering mountain. Men of science tell us that shortness of sight is greatly on the increase amongst us, especially with those who live in great cities. The reason for this is that the city dwellers wear out their eye-sight by looking constantly on objects close to them, without having any wider or more distant prospect. So it is with our spiritual sight. We wear it out by fixing our ...
— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton


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