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Definition of Increase

Increase To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest. Progeny; issue; offspring. Generation. The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Related Definitions: Add, Added, Addition, Advance, Aggravate, Amount, As, Augment, Augmentation, Authority, Be, Become, Bulk, By, Decrease, Degree, Enhance, Enlargement, Extend, Extent, Fertile, Fruitful, Full, Generation, Grow, Growth, In, Increase, Increasing, Influence, Intensity, Interest, Is, Issue, Lengthen, Luminous, Light, Make, Moon, More, Multiply, Nearly, Number, Of, Offspring, One, Opposed, Or, Original, Period, Phase, Power, Produce, Production, Profit, Progeny, Prolific, Quantity, Reputation, Said, Show, Size, Stock, Substance, Surface, That, The, To, Value, Wax, Waxing, Wealth, Which, Young

Increase Quotations Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Mother Teresa Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Marcus Tullius Cicero The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. Henry Miller

Increase Translations increase in Danish is tiltagende increase in Dutch is opdrijven, verheffen, ophogen increase in French is agrandir, accroitre, augmentons, augmentez increase in Latin is auctus, amplio, progressio, ingemino, cresco increase in Portuguese is aumento

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