Definition of increase

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Increase (v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

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Centumvir :: Centumvir (n.) One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections..
Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime..
Barrage :: Barrage (n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. i.) To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
Excitement :: Excitement (n.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues..
Thrift :: Thrift (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
Double :: Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Accrue :: Accrue (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent..
Diaphoretical :: Diaphoretical (a.) Having the power to increase perspiration.
Excite :: Excite (v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable..
Populate :: Populate (v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people..
Thrive :: Thrive (v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Gather :: Gather (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Gradual :: Gradual (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline..
Aggrandize :: Aggrandize (v. i.) To increase or become great.
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
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