increase
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
increase
▶verb /ɪnˈkriːs/ make or become greater in size, amount, or degree. ▶noun /ˈɪŋkriːs/ an instance of increasing.
– derivatives
increasable adjective,
increasing adjective,
increasingly adverb.
increasable adjective,
increasing adjective,
increasingly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. encreistre, from L. increscere, from in- ‘into’ + crescere ‘grow’.
'increase' also found in these Oxford entries:
accelerando
- accelerate
- accrue
- accumulate
- activated carbon
- ad-
- add
- afterburner
- aggrandize
- amplify
- ante
- anti-roll bar
- appreciation
- auction
- augment
- author
- auxin
- avalanche
- baby boom
- backdate
- back door
- balloon
- boost
- brake lining
- build
- build-up
- bulge
- burgeon
- cleat
- climb
- compression
- concentrate
- counterproliferation
- crank
- crescendo
- crew
- dbx
- diminish
- diseconomy
- diverge
- Doppler effect
- dramatic
- ego trip
- eke
- elevate
- encephalization
- enrich
- eosinophilia
- escalate
- eugenics
