Synonym: compress, curtail, cut, diminish, lessen, reduce, shorten. Antonym: increase. Similar words: increased, decrepit, increasing, increasingly, in secret, secretary, ease, at ease. Meaning: [diː'kriːs] 
n. 1. a change downward 2. a process of becoming smaller or shorter 3. the amount by which something decreases 4. the act of decreasing or reducing something. v. 1. decrease in size, extent, or range 2. make smaller.
n. 1. a change downward 2. a process of becoming smaller or shorter 3. the amount by which something decreases 4. the act of decreasing or reducing something. v. 1. decrease in size, extent, or range 2. make smaller. 
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61. Short recordings of classical music caused their activity to decrease, sometimes to levels half of that before the music started.
62. Simply by growing larger, creatures suffer a continual decrease in relative surface area.
63. If all goes well, our own production of cholesterol should decrease in relation to the amount we take in from outside.
64. Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
65. More nuclear weapons, properly shared out, might decrease the risk of global war.
66. Pure alcohol injection after an epinephrine injection tended to decrease the rebleeding rate in our series.
67. In addition, a decrease in size seems to have accompanied adaptation to an exclusively arboreal life.
68. There are positive and negative reinforcers which increase and decrease this rate of occurrence respectively.
69. A big fall in steel productivity caused a corresponding decrease in profits.
70. If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight, then you know you are eating the right amounts.
71. But if interest rates fall below the capped rate, your rate will decrease with them.
72. An increase in supply shifts the curve to the right; a decrease in supply shifts it to the left.
73. What happens when you decrease the amount of salt by adding more fresh water?
74. Second, there is the issue of the increase or decrease in overtly exploitative, degrading and violent forms of sexuality.
75. In contrast to carrying costs, ordering costs decrease with increases in average inventory level.
76. Williams-Sonoma has been struggling recently, reporting a 45 percent earnings decrease in the past year.
77. Under such circumstances the frequency with which you visited the pub would be likely to decrease gradually over time.
78. The percentage of poultry meat may decrease to 50 percent if statement is made of the percentage of broth. 6.
79. Normally, some records are accessed more frequently than others, and this tendency can be used to decrease average access time.
80. The effect of branching is to decrease the percentage crystallinity, broaden the melting range, and reduce the average melting temperature.
81. Production costs will decrease as the required level of stock is reduced.
82. Then slowly decrease the finger pressure, ending with about twenty seconds of light touch.
83. Fueling up can decrease errors, increase productivity, improve your mood and prevent binge eating later on.
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84. A quantitative measure of the damping is provided by the logarithmic decrement defined as the logarithmic decrease in amplitude per cycle.
85. At night our internal clock, sleep, and our inactive environment act together to decrease temperature and urinary loss.
86. Constant wetting makes nails soft and opaque, and chemical detergents and varnish removers decrease levels of moisture in the nail.
87. Any increase or decrease in the money stock is thus directly attributable to the activities of the central bank.
88. Don't cast off, but enter a second program that will decrease from the measurement you have to the waist.
89. There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size.
90. This percentage is likely to decrease as a result of improvements in cable systems.