Increase

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Increased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Increasing.]
	1.	To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; - opposed to decrease. The waters increased and bare up the ark. - Gen. vii. 17. He must increase, but I must decrease. - John iii. 30. The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow! - Shak.
	2.	To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. - Sir M. Hale.
	3.	(Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.) a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished; also called a monotonically increasing function.
v. t.	1.	To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence. I will increase the famine. - Ezek. v. 16. Make denials Increase your services. - Shak.
n.	1.
	1.	Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth. As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. - Shak. For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. - Dryden.
	2.	That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest. Take thou no usury of him, or increase. - Lev. xxv. 36. Let them not live to taste this land's increase. - Shak.
	3.	Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. - 1 Sam. ii. 33.
	4.	Generation.
	5.	(Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. - Bacon. Increase twist the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

Noun	1.	increase - a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" Synonyms: gain, addition
	2.	increase - a change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month" Antonyms: decrease, lessening, drop-off - a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
	3.	increase - a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" Synonyms: increment, growth Antonyms: decrease, decrement - a process of becoming smaller or shorter
	4.	increase - the amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare" Synonyms: increment Antonyms: decrement, decrease - the amount by which something decreases
	5.	increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" Synonyms: step-up Antonyms: reduction, step-down, diminution, decrease - the act of decreasing or reducing something
Verb	1.	increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall - decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
	2.	increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" Antonyms: minify, decrease, lessen - make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

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