increase
/ɪnˈkɹiːs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."
- "The waters increased and bare up the ark."
- "The heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase, / Even as our days do grow!"
- "I have reckoned upon a Medium, that a Child juſt born vvill vveigh 12 pounds, and in a ſolar Year if tollerably nurſed encreaſeth to 28 Pound."
- "This contribution reduces with increasing distance p from the emitting surface element dA, due to conservation of energy, as the wave energy distributed across the spherical wave front remains constant, while the radius increases during ..."
- "The report said that deep learning methods increased from just 118 patent requests in 2013 to nearly 2,400 in 2016."
Etymology
From Middle English encresen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“to increase”), from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”). The noun is from Middle English encres, from the verb.