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Adjective increasing has 2 senses
  1. increasing - becoming greater or larger; "increasing prices"
    Antonyms:     decreasing, abating, subsiding, detractive, diminishing, dwindling, tapering, tapering off, depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory, falling
  2. increasing - music
    Antonyms:     decreasing, allargando, calando, decrescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rit.
,Verb increase has 2 senses
  1. increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
    --1 is one way to     change magnitude
    Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
    Derived forms: noun increase5, noun increase4, noun increase3, noun increase2, noun increase1
    Sample sentence:
    Their earnings increase this year
  2. increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"
    --2 is one way to     change, alter, modify
    Antonyms: decrease, lessen, minify
    Derived forms: noun increase5, noun increase4, noun increase3, noun increase2, noun increase1
    Sample sentence:
    They increase their earnings this year
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