All increase antonyms
inΒ·crease
I i verb increase
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- slow β moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- undermine β to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- lessen β to become less.
- cease β If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- curtail β If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- compress β When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- abridge β to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- condense β If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- shorten β to make short or shorter.
- take back β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- recede β to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- retreat β the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- play down β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- degrade β Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
- deplete β To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
- subtract β to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- lower β to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- diminish β to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- shrink β to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- contract β A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- abbreviate β If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
- deflate β If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
- fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- lose β to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- narrow β of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- weaken β to make weak or weaker.
noun increase
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- shrinkage β the act or fact of shrinking.
- loss β detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- reduction β the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- abridgment β a shortened version of a written work
- compression β the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
- depletion β a depleting or being depleted
- diminishment β to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- subtraction β an act or instance of subtracting.
- decline β If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.