单词 | increase |
释义 | increaseverb /ɪnˈkriːs / Become or make greater in size, amount, or degree: [no object]: car use is increasing at an alarming rate [with object]: we are aiming to increase awareness of social issues (as adjective increasing) the increasing numbers of students...
Synonyms grow, get bigger, get larger, become greater, enlarge, expand, swell; rise, climb, escalate, soar, surge, rocket, shoot up, spiral; improve, intensify, strengthen; heighten, lengthen, extend, stretch, spread, widen; multiply, snowball, mushroom, proliferate, balloon, build up, mount up, pile up, accrue, accumulate literary wax add to, make larger, make bigger, make greater, augment, supplement, top up, build up, enlarge, expand, extend, raise, multiply, elevate, swell, inflate; magnify, intensify, strengthen, amplify, heighten, escalate; improve, make better, boost, ameliorate, enhance, enrich, upgrade; worsen, make worse, exacerbate, aggravate, inflame, compound, reinforce informal up, jack up, hike up, hike, bump up, crank up, step up noun /ˈɪŋkriːs / A rise in the size, amount, or degree of something: an increase of 28.3 per cent [mass noun]: some increase in inflation is expected...
Synonyms growth, rise, enlargement, expansion, extension, multiplication, elevation, swelling, inflation; increment, addition, augmentation; magnification, intensification, strengthening, amplification, stepping up, step up, heightening; climb, escalation, surge, upsurge, upswing, spiral; improvement, boost, amelioration, enhancement, upgrade, upturn; worsening, exacerbation, aggravation; development, advance, boom, spurt, snowballing, mushrooming informal hike Phraseson the increase Derivativesincreasable
OriginMiddle English (formerly also as encrease): from Old French encreistre, from Latin increscere, from in- 'into' + crescere 'grow'.
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