decrease
— Verb
– English
～ decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
decrease
— Verb
– English
～ make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
decrease
— Noun
– English
～ a process of becoming smaller or shorter
decrease
— Noun
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～ the amount by which something decreases
decrease
— Noun
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～ a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
decrease
— Noun
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～ the act of decreasing or reducing something
decreased
— Adjective
– English
～ made less in size or amount or degree
decreasing
— Adjective
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～ (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume
decreasing
— Adjective
– English
～ becoming less or smaller
decree
— Verb
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～ decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed"
decree
— Verb
– English
～ issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
decree
— Noun
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～ a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
decreed
— Adjective
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～ fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time)"
decrement
— Noun
– English
～ a process of becoming smaller or shorter
decrement
— Noun
– English
～ the amount by which something decreases
decrepit
— Adjective
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～ lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
decrepit
— Adjective
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～ worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
decrepitate
— Verb
– English
～ undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated"
decrepitate
— Verb
– English
～ to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts"
decrepitation
— Noun
– English
～ the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated