Verb

Infinitive to increase

Third person singular increases

Simple past increased

Past participle increased

Present participle increasing

to increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)

1. (intransitive, of a quantity) to become larger.
2. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.

Synonyms

• (become larger): go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly)
• (make larger): increment, raise, (informal) up

Antonyms

• (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink
• (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce

Derived terms

• increasable

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Increase is another word for more. Mathematicians rather use the word increase in number use. Decrease the opposite of Increase means less.