increase
verb/ɪnˈkriːs/
/ɪnˈkriːs/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they increase | /ɪnˈkriːs/ /ɪnˈkriːs/ |
| he / she / it increases | /ɪnˈkriːsɪz/ /ɪnˈkriːsɪz/ |
| past simple increased | /ɪnˈkriːst/ /ɪnˈkriːst/ |
| past participle increased | /ɪnˈkriːst/ /ɪnˈkriːst/ |
| -ing form increasing | /ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/ /ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/ |
- to become greater in amount, number, value, etc.; to make something greater in amount, number, value, etc.
- Costs have increased significantly.
- to increase dramatically/substantially
- The price of oil increased.
- increase in something Oil increased in price.
- increase by something The rate of inflation increased by 2 per cent.
- increase from A to B The population has increased from 1.2 million to 1.8 million.
- increase with something The effectiveness of the vaccine increases with time (= the more time passes, the more effective it is).
- increase something Sun exposure may increase the risk of skin cancer.
- Our aim is to increase the number of women in the sport.
- The company plans to significantly increase product availability over the next year.
- increase something by something They've increased the price by 50 per cent.
- increase something from A to B Last month the reward was increased from $20 000 to $40 000.
- An increasing number of people live alone.
- increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere
Extra ExamplesTopics Change, cause and effecta2, Moneya2- Demand is expected to increase over the next decade.
- Sales increased almost fourfold in this period.
- The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year.
- We need to increase productivity.
- Progressively increase the intensity of the exercise over three weeks.
- You can increase or decrease the font size.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- considerably
- dramatically
- drastically
- …
- be expected to
- be likely to
- by
- from
- in
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (formerly also as encrease): from Old French encreistre, from Latin increscere, from in- ‘into’ + crescere ‘grow’.Want to learn more?
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