decreasen.

Brit.

/ˈdiːkriːs/,

/dɪˈkriːs/, U.S.

/dəˈkris/,

/ˈdiˌkris/

Forms: Middle English decrees, Middle English–1600s discrease, Middle English decresse, 1500s– decrease.

Etymology: < Old French decreis, descreis (later des- , de-crois , now décroît ), verbal noun < the stem of de- , descreis-tre (de(s)creiss-ant ) to decrease v.

a. The process of growing less; lessening, diminution, falling off, abatement; the condition which results from this. (Opposed to increase n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

1383 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 154 That none honour fall in decrees [v.r. discrease].

1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 1 To decresse and destruccion of your lyvelode.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 119 They see the seas by increase and decrease, to flowe and reflowe.

1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) i. 20 The latter Foure of Diminution or Decrease.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 28 Nov. (1972) VI. 313 Soon as we know how the plague goes this week, which we hope will be a good decrease.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 43 While Man is growing, Life is in Decrease.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 168 The steady decrease in the number of the greater nobles.

†b. spec. The wane of the moon. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > waning moon > action of

olda1225

wane1548

decrement1610

decrease1626

waddle1678

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §626 Such Fruits..you must gather..when the Moon is under the Earth, and in decrease.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 29 The same taken in the decrease of the moon..helpeth the fits of quartans.

1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 266 The moon in her decrease prevents the dawn.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

decreasev.

/dɪˈkriːs/

Forms: α. Middle English discrese, Middle English discrease, discreace, dyscres, dyscrece, 1500s discresse, dyscrease; β. Middle English decreesse, Middle English–1500s decrese, Middle English decrece, decreace, Middle English–1500s decresse, 1500s Scottish dicres, 1500s– decrease.

Etymology: < Old French de-, descreiss-, participial stem of descreistre (later descroistre (Cotgrave 1611), now décroître ) = Provençal descreisser , Catalan descrexer , Spanish descrecer , Italian diˈscrescere , which took in Romanic the place of Latin dēcrēscĕre , < dē- down + crēscĕre to grow: see de- prefix 1f. Under the influence of the Latin, decreistre was an occasional variant in Old French, and under the same influence, de-crese, found beside descrese in Middle English, eventually superseded it. An Anglo-Norman decresser, influenced by English decrese or Latin decrescere, is found in the Statutes of Hen. VI.

1. intransitive. To grow less (in amount, importance, influence, etc.); to lessen, diminish, fall off, shrink, abate. (Opposed to increase v.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]

littleOE

setc1000

wanzec1175

lessc1225

allayc1275

wane1297

slaken1303

disincreasec1374

slakec1380

decrease1382

debatea1400

unwaxa1400

wastea1400

adminishc1400

lessenc1400

imminish14..

aslakec1405

minish?a1425

assuagec1430

shrinkc1449

to let down1486

decay1489

diminish1520

fall1523

rebate1540

batea1542

to come down1548

abate1560

stoop1572

pine1580

slack1580

scanten1585

shrivel1588

decrew1596

remit1629

contract1648

subside1680

lower1697

relax1701

drop1730

to take off1776

to run down1792

reduce1798

recede1810

to run off1816

to go down1823

attenuatea1834

ease1876

downscale1945

α.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 189 Knowend how that the feith discreseth.

a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 224 Oure joy wylle sone dyscres.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. 2 The mone..euer wauerynge, wexynge one season and waneth & dyscreaseth another season.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hi^v Now ebbe, now flowe, nowe increase, now dyscrease.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 518/2 I discresse, I growe lasse or dymynysshe.

β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. viii. 5 The watres ȝeden and decreesseden [a1425 L.V. decresiden] vnto the tenthe moneth.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 23 Þan begynnes Nilus to decreesse.1483 Cath. Angl. 92 To Decrese (A. Decresse), decrescere.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 509/1 I decrease, I waxe lesse, or vanysshe awaye.1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) John iii. 30 He must increace: and I must decreace.1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ii. 90 Tyrants feare Decrease not, but grow faster then the yeares. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 34 The number of citizens gradually decreased.1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iv. 68 The temperature..decreases as we rise in the atmosphere.

2. transitive. To cause to grow less; to lessen, diminish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

anitherOE

wanzelOE

lessc1225

slakea1300

littenc1300

aslakec1314

adminisha1325

allayc1330

settle1338

low1340

minisha1382

reprovea1382

abatea1398

rebatea1398

subtlea1398

alaskia1400

forlyten?a1400

imminish14..

lessenc1410

diminish1417

repress?a1425

assuagec1430

scarcec1440

small1440

underslakec1440

alessa1450

debate?c1450

batec1460

decreasec1470

appetisse1474

alow1494

mince1499

perswage?1504

remita1513

inless?1521

attenuate1530

weaken1530

defray1532

mitigate1532

minorate1534

narrow?1548

diminuec1550

extenuate1555

amain1578

exolve1578

base1581

dejecta1586

amoinder1588

faint1598

qualify1604

contract1605

to pull down1607

shrivel1609

to take down1610

disaugment1611

impoverish1611

shrink1628

decoct1629

persway1631

unflame1635

straiten1645

depress1647

reduce1649

detract1654

minuate1657

alloy1661

lower?1662

sinka1684

retreat1690

nip1785

to drive down1840

minify1866

to knock down1867

to damp down1869

scale1887

mute1891

clip1938

to roll back1942

to cut back1943

downscale1945

downrate1958

slim1963

downshift1972

c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xvi. vii For couetyse his brother to discreace.

1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Cordila xlv He first decreast my wealth.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 118 His Lands and goods, Which I haue bettered rather then decreast .

1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. M3^v Yet the father knew very well that age decreaseth strength.

c1718 M. Prior Epitaph 42 Nor cherish'd they relations poor, That might decrease their present store.

1865 Mill in Evening Star (Philadelphia) 10 July That did not decrease in the least the hundreds of miles which London was distant from Edinburgh.

Derivatives

deˈcreasing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

shrinking?a1400

welkinga1400

moderativec1487

thinning1551

wanzing1571

decreasing1591

restricting1606

lessening1611

waning1632

assuaging1651

limiting1656

mitigating1749

diminishing1793

decrescent1811

shrivelling1849

dropping1894

scanting1916

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. ii. 298 In the whyche waters..it makyth encreasynge and decresynge.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Descrecimiento Decreasing.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. l. 134 Which yet increases more with the decreasing day.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 277 [Quakers] hold that..baptism with water belonged to an inferior and decreasing dispensation.

deˈcreasingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb]

decreasingly1822

diminishingly1827

a-wane1876

reductionally1967

1822 Examiner 219/1 Glaring on its contiguous objects, and decreasingly gleaming to the foreground.

1894 N.E.D. at Decrease Mod. Food was decreasingly scarce.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	decrease
释义	decreasen. Brit. /ˈdiːkriːs/, /dɪˈkriːs/, U.S. /dəˈkris/, /ˈdiˌkris/ Forms: Middle English decrees, Middle English–1600s discrease, Middle English decresse, 1500s– decrease. Etymology: < Old French decreis, descreis (later des- , de-crois , now décroît ), verbal noun < the stem of de- , descreis-tre (de(s)creiss-ant ) to decrease v. a. The process of growing less; lessening, diminution, falling off, abatement; the condition which results from this. (Opposed to increase n.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 1383 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 154 That none honour fall in decrees [v.r. discrease]. 1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 1 To decresse and destruccion of your lyvelode. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 119 They see the seas by increase and decrease, to flowe and reflowe. 1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) i. 20 The latter Foure of Diminution or Decrease. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 28 Nov. (1972) VI. 313 Soon as we know how the plague goes this week, which we hope will be a good decrease. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 43 While Man is growing, Life is in Decrease. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 168 The steady decrease in the number of the greater nobles. †b. spec. The wane of the moon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > waning moon > action of olda1225 wane1548 decrement1610 decrease1626 waddle1678 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §626 Such Fruits..you must gather..when the Moon is under the Earth, and in decrease. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 29 The same taken in the decrease of the moon..helpeth the fits of quartans. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 266 The moon in her decrease prevents the dawn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). decreasev. /dɪˈkriːs/ Forms: α. Middle English discrese, Middle English discrease, discreace, dyscres, dyscrece, 1500s discresse, dyscrease; β. Middle English decreesse, Middle English–1500s decrese, Middle English decrece, decreace, Middle English–1500s decresse, 1500s Scottish dicres, 1500s– decrease. Etymology: < Old French de-, descreiss-, participial stem of descreistre (later descroistre (Cotgrave 1611), now décroître ) = Provençal descreisser , Catalan descrexer , Spanish descrecer , Italian diˈscrescere , which took in Romanic the place of Latin dēcrēscĕre , < dē- down + crēscĕre to grow: see de- prefix 1f. Under the influence of the Latin, decreistre was an occasional variant in Old French, and under the same influence, de-crese, found beside descrese in Middle English, eventually superseded it. An Anglo-Norman decresser, influenced by English decrese or Latin decrescere, is found in the Statutes of Hen. VI. 1. intransitive. To grow less (in amount, importance, influence, etc.); to lessen, diminish, fall off, shrink, abate. (Opposed to increase v.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] littleOE setc1000 wanzec1175 lessc1225 allayc1275 wane1297 slaken1303 disincreasec1374 slakec1380 decrease1382 debatea1400 unwaxa1400 wastea1400 adminishc1400 lessenc1400 imminish14.. aslakec1405 minish?a1425 assuagec1430 shrinkc1449 to let down1486 decay1489 diminish1520 fall1523 rebate1540 batea1542 to come down1548 abate1560 stoop1572 pine1580 slack1580 scanten1585 shrivel1588 decrew1596 remit1629 contract1648 subside1680 lower1697 relax1701 drop1730 to take off1776 to run down1792 reduce1798 recede1810 to run off1816 to go down1823 attenuatea1834 ease1876 downscale1945 α. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 189 Knowend how that the feith discreseth. a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 224 Oure joy wylle sone dyscres. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. 2 The mone..euer wauerynge, wexynge one season and waneth & dyscreaseth another season. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hi^v Now ebbe, now flowe, nowe increase, now dyscrease. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 518/2 I discresse, I growe lasse or dymynysshe. β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. viii. 5 The watres ȝeden and decreesseden [a1425 L.V. decresiden] vnto the tenthe moneth.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 23 Þan begynnes Nilus to decreesse.1483 Cath. Angl. 92 To Decrese (A. Decresse), decrescere.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 509/1 I decrease, I waxe lesse, or vanysshe awaye.1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) John iii. 30 He must increace: and I must decreace.1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ii. 90 Tyrants feare Decrease not, but grow faster then the yeares. View more context for this quotation1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 34 The number of citizens gradually decreased.1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iv. 68 The temperature..decreases as we rise in the atmosphere. 2. transitive. To cause to grow less; to lessen, diminish. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xvi. vii For couetyse his brother to discreace. 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Cordila xlv He first decreast my wealth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 118 His Lands and goods, Which I haue bettered rather then decreast . View more context for this quotation 1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. M3^v Yet the father knew very well that age decreaseth strength. c1718 M. Prior Epitaph 42 Nor cherish'd they relations poor, That might decrease their present store. 1865 Mill in Evening Star (Philadelphia) 10 July That did not decrease in the least the hundreds of miles which London was distant from Edinburgh. Derivatives deˈcreasing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] shrinking?a1400 welkinga1400 moderativec1487 thinning1551 wanzing1571 decreasing1591 restricting1606 lessening1611 waning1632 assuaging1651 limiting1656 mitigating1749 diminishing1793 decrescent1811 shrivelling1849 dropping1894 scanting1916 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. ii. 298 In the whyche waters..it makyth encreasynge and decresynge. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Descrecimiento Decreasing. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. l. 134 Which yet increases more with the decreasing day. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 277 [Quakers] hold that..baptism with water belonged to an inferior and decreasing dispensation. deˈcreasingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] decreasingly1822 diminishingly1827 a-wane1876 reductionally1967 1822 Examiner 219/1 Glaring on its contiguous objects, and decreasingly gleaming to the foreground. 1894 N.E.D. at Decrease Mod. Food was decreasingly scarce. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1383v.1382
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