Increase Definition

ĭn-krēs

increased, increases, increasing

verb

increased, increases, increasing

To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment.

Webster's New World

To become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; grow.

Webster's New World

To become greater in numbers by producing offspring; multiply; propagate.

Webster's New World

To multiply; reproduce.

American Heritage

To make greater or larger.

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noun

increases

An increasing or becoming increased.

Webster's New World

The result or amount of an increasing.

A population increase of 10%

Webster's New World

Reproduction and spread; propagation.

American Heritage

For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.

Wiktionary

(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

Wiktionary

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idiom

on the increase

American Heritage

on the increase

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Increase

Singular:

increase

Plural:

Middle English encresen from Old French encreistre encreiss- from Latin incrēscere in- intensive pref. in–² crēscere to grow ker-² in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Old French, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of increscō, from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”).

From Wiktionary