Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Becoming less and less; diminishing.
- adjective (Math.) a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
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- verb Present participle of
decrease .
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- adjective music
- adjective becoming less or smaller
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Examples
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In an e-mail message on Friday to the bar's membership, its president, Robert J. Grey Jr., said lawyers and others who work with the law needed to respond to what he described as decreasing respect for the courts.
Judicial politics. Ann Althouse 2005
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Keeps people from killing too many and would help in decreasing the pockets of land where the herd may be at an unhealthy level.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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A “Green” Job is a usual job where the output, the result of the work effort participates in decreasing carbon emissions or pollution.
Walking the talk 2010
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Reasoned inquiry depends — in decreasing order of abstraction — upon logic, principles, evidence and facts.
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Keeps people from killing too many and would help in decreasing the pockets of land where the herd may be at an unhealthy level.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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Measles initiatives have made considerable progress in decreasing disease and death caused by measles since its inception in 2001.
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Unless we stop minimizing smokers and treating them like like pariahs, we will never make positive strides in decreasing the number of those addicited to cigarettes.
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Keeps people from killing too many and would help in decreasing the pockets of land where the herd may be at an unhealthy level.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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As I have quite a few favicons, I'd be interested in decreasing the gap between them, even if they stay under the address bar.
All-Glass Firefox Enables Slick Transparency Effects | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Keeps people from killing too many and would help in decreasing the pockets of land where the herd may be at an unhealthy level.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word decreasing
JM heard that the sales of irons are decreasing.
June 19, 2011