increase

Definition

  • verb: to become larger or greater in size, amount, number, etc.
  • verb: to become progressively greater (as in size, amount, number, or intensity)
  • synonyms: grow, augment, advance

Examples

  • The number of college applications is 'on the increase'. [='on the rise']

  • These symptoms are associated with an 'increased' risk of heart disease.

  • The construction will probably cause some 'increase' in traffic delays.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) So loving of my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly Heaven and earth, must I remember? Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on And yet within a month... let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman (..)
    2015 Hamlet