| 单词 | decrease |
| 释义 | de·crease I. intransitive verb < his stock decreased as the war went on > < his influence slowly decreased > transitive verb 1. < this medicine will decrease his pain > < it is necessary to decrease the amount of coal used > 2. Synonyms: < the population of the area is decreasing > < a steadily decreasing income > < a rather even crest line, which decreases in elevation eastward — C.B.Hitchcock > < a decreasing chance for victory > < decreasing intensity > < belief in the evolution of man's body has decreased among paleontologists — R.W.Murray > lessen, meaning simply to become less, is a close synonym for decrease except that it is usually not used with stated numbers < the valley widens, hills lessen in height — American Guide Series: Texas > < lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence — Jane Austen > < I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill-opinion — Jane Austen > < they find that in these quarters the Church is suspected of being an ally of ‘capitalism,’ and that their influence is lessened in consequence — W.R.Inge > < the fever is lessened > but < the fever decreased from 101° to 99° > diminish may add to the meaning of decrease the notion of loss, of subtraction, sometimes unfortunate < with the retreat of the forest, the amount of variety of wild game inevitably diminished — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < with the advent of the railroad, trade diminished and the town gradually declined — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < he has shown that he is reluctant to use his prestige to such ends, and his continued refusal to use it diminishes his power to do so — R.H.Rovere > reduce may heighten suggestion of the role of an agent or agency effecting a change; it may also implicate a lowering of status or significance < devices adopted by the government to reduce unemployment — Collier's Year Book > < medical science has reduced the incidence of many communicable diseases virtually to zero — Gertrude Samuels > < the yeoman, it has been said, was being steadily reduced to a peasant — G.E.Fussell > abate may be used to indicate the decrease in intensity, amount, force, or significance of something immoderate or excessive < misfortune had abated the grandiosity of the Roman temper, and there was a widespread reaction towards simplicity — John Buchan > < the long tradition of mutual injury and revenge … had left animosities that took long to abate — G.M.Trevelyan > < physically weakened by a stomach disorder that will not abate — Hollis Alpert > dwindle may apply to progressive lessening or weakening towards insignificance < the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared — R.L. Stevenson > < the Zarafshan had already dwindled to an insignificant creek — Douglas Carruthers > < the great buffalo herds, once estimated at 60,000,000 head in Texas, have dwindled to a few animals — American Guide Series: Texas > < the place dwindled in importance and at present is a small trading village — American Guide Series: Oregon > II. 1. < we shall be conscious of a certain decrease in scientific dogmatism — Irving Babbitt > 2. < the decrease in exports for the year was 15 percent > 3. knitting a. b. |
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