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in·crease

(ĭn-krēs′)

v. in·creased, in·creas·ing, in·creas·es

v.intr.

1. To become greater or larger.

2. To multiply; reproduce.

v.tr.

To make greater or larger.

n. (ĭn′krēs′)

1. The act of increasing: a steady increase in temperature.

2. The amount or rate by which something is increased: a tax increase of 15 percent.

3. Obsolete Reproduction and spread; propagation.

Idiom:

on the increase

Increasing, especially in frequency of occurrence: Crime is on the increase.

[Middle English encresen, from Old French encreistre, encreiss-, from Latin incrēscere : in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + crēscere, to grow; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

in·creas′a·ble adj.

in·creas′er n.

in·creas′ing·ly adv.

Synonyms: increase , expand , enlarge , augment , multiply¹
These verbs mean to make or become greater or larger. Increase sometimes suggests steady growth: The president's economic program is designed to increase consumer confidence. The city's population increased during the last decade. Expand applies especially to an increase in size, volume, or scope: Visiting the botanical garden has expanded my interest in tropical plants. These plant fibers expand when water is plentiful. Enlarge often implies an increase in size, area, or extent, as by widening or broadening: The landowner enlarged her property by repeated purchases. The disease causes the kidneys to enlarge. Augment usually applies to an increase that is already developed or well under way: She augmented her collection of books each month. As the pressure augments, the volume of the steam decreases. To multiply is to increase in number: The internet has multiplied the ways in which consumers can buy goods. The number of tourists visiting the town has multiplied since the highway opened.

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increasing

(ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ)

adj

growing; rising

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Translations

creciente

croissant

crescente

increasing

[ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ] ADJ [number, amount] → creciente, cada vez mayor
an increasing number of women are going out to work → un creciente número de mujeres va a trabajar, el número de mujeres que trabajan va en aumento or es cada vez mayor
the president is under increasing pressure to resign → el presidente recibe cada vez más presiones para presentar la dimisión

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

increasing

[ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ] adj → croissant(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

increasing

adj → zunehmend, steigend, (an)wachsend; an increasing number of people are changing to … → mehr und mehr Leute steigen auf (+acc) → … um; there is increasing pressure on her to resign → sie gerät zunehmend unter Druck zurückzutreten; there are increasing signs that … → es gibt immer mehr Anzeichen dafür, dass …

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increasing

[ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ] adj (number) → crescente, in aumento

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Although some species may be now increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them.

In this case we can clearly see that if we wished in imagination to give the plant the power of increasing in number, we should have to give it some advantage over its competitors, or over the animals which preyed on it.

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"The desire of gain develops a spirit of ambition, which has ever since impelled our workers to extend their field from the township to the canton, and from the canton to the department, so as to increase their profits by increasing their sales.

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The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.

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We in Boston are constantly indebted to you for doing our work." My experience in securing money convinces me that the first type of man is growing more rare all the time, and that the latter type is increasing; that is, that, more and more, rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.

Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.

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It is also absurd to render property equal, and not to provide for the increasing number of the citizens; but to leave that circumstance uncertain, as if it would regulate itself according to the number of women who [1265b] should happen to be childless, let that be what it would because this seems to take place in other cities; but the case would not be the same in such a state which he proposes and those which now actually unite; for in these no one actually wants, as the property is divided amongst the whole community, be their numbers what they will; but as it could not then be divided, the supernumeraries, whether they were many or few, would have nothing at all.

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All this, and much more, at a cost of interminable time and patience, Nalasu taught him, and much more he taught him, increasing his vocabulary so that, at a distance, they could hold quick and sharply definite conversations.

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