| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add or grow |
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advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, mount, multiply, pad, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, pullulate, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, sharpen, slap on, snowball, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell, tack on, teem, thicken, triple, wax, widen |
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decrease, deplete, diminish, lose, subtract |
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assess financial value |
Synonyms: |
appraise, cost, estimate, evaluate, fix, mark down, mark up, put a price on, rate, reduce, sticker, value |
| Main Entry: | snowball |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, burgeon, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, grow, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, mount, multiply, pad, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, pullulate, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, run up, sharpen, slap on, soar, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell*, tack on, teem, thicken, triple, upsurge, wax, widen |
| Concept: | Increase. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; CHANGES IN QUANTITY |
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-nouns
increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration, exacerbation; spread (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.
-verbs
increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate (expand); grow, wax, get ahead; gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout., aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd (add) [more]; spread (disperse).
-adjectives
increased; on the increase, undiminished; additional (added).
-adverbs
crescendo.
-phrases
vires acquirit eundo [Vergil].
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Antonyms: |
decrease |
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| Concept: | Price. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages (remuneration); value., dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage., bill (account); shot.
-verbs
bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain; run up a bill (debt); have one's price; liquidate., amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in., fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.
-adjectives
priced; to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary, venal.
-phrases
no penny no paternoster; point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper.
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