decrease
verb
• make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree.
• "the population of the area has decreased radically"
Similar:
lessen,
grow/become less,
grow/become smaller,
reduce,
drop,
diminish,
decline,
dwindle,
contract,
shrink,
fall off,
die down,
abate,
subside,
let up,
tail off,
ebb,
wane,
taper off,
peter out,
lighten,
sink,
slump,
plummet,
plunge,
make less/fewer,
lower,
cut down/back (on),
cut,
curtail,
narrow,
pare down,
slim down,
tone down,
temper,
weaken,
deplete,
minimize,
slash,
decrease
noun
• an instance or example of becoming smaller or fewer.
• "a decrease in births"
Similar:
reduction,
drop,
lessening,
lowering,
decline,
falling off,
letting up,
slackening,
downturn,
cut,
cutback,
curtailment,
diminution,
contraction,
shrinkage,
ebb,
wane,
de-escalation,
dying down,
abatement,
downtick,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French decreis (noun), decreistre (verb), based on Latin decrescere, from de- ‘down’ + crescere ‘grow’.
