cresc-, -cret, -crease

1. An abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.
2. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
3. Etymology: "the action of growing out", from Latin excrescentia, "abnormal growths"; from excrescentem, excrescens, which came from excrescere, "to grow out, to grow up"; from ex-, "out" + crescere, "to grow".

1. Added to or growing out unnecessarily.
2. Growing out abnormally, excessively, or superfluously.
3. In biology, relating to outgrowth; such as, relating to or like an outgrowth on an organism.
4. Denoting, relating to, or resembling an abnormal outgrowth.

1. To become, or becoming, greater or larger.
2. To multiply, or multiplying; to reproduce.

1. A person or something that increases.
2. Anything that becomes progressively greater; as in size, amount, number, or intensity.
3. Something which goes through the process of becoming larger, longer, more numerous, or more important.

1. A reference to advancing in amount or intensity: "After hearing about the death of her sister, she became increasingly depressed."
2. Descriptive of something that increases, or gets bigger, over time.
3. The amount or rate by which something is increased or has become greater or larger.

1. The amount by which something increases to a greater number, quantity, degree, or an amount.
2. A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.
3. An addition to or an increase in the amount or size of something; especially, one of a series of small, often regular or planned increases.

1. A new member in a company or an organization, especially someone who has recently joined: "He was assigned to train the new recruits of the company."
2. New members of the military: "The new recruits will be going to the training center tomorrow."

1. To supply an organization, company, etc. with new members or employees.
2. To enroll someone as a worker, or a member, or to include people as workers or members.
3. To strengthen, to increase, or to raise an armed force by enlistment.

Whenever a recruit joins a military branch it results in an increase of military services.

1. Someone who supplies members or employees for a business, organization, etc.
2. An official who enlists personnel for a military service.

1. The enlistment of people for the military, or for a job or a cause etc..
2. In medicine, the gradual increase to a maximum in a reflex when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is prolonged; for example, in audiology, an abnormal increase in loudness caused by a very slight increase in sound intensity.

1. Lose size; become smaller gradually.
2. Decline in power, influence, or importance.
3. Decline in strength or intensity.
4. Draw to a close.
5. On the wane, growing less; waning.

Although wane is from Old English and Old Frisian and not from Latin nor Greek, it is included here because it is considered a synonym of decrease and is used quite often in English.

1. To grow bigger or greater; to increase.
2. To become.

Although this wax is from Old English and Old Frisian and not from Latin nor Greek, it is included here because it is considered a synonym of increase and has special applications in Modern English.

This wax should not be confused with another wax which means "a yellowish substance made by bees for constructing their honeycombs".

Most of the wax used for candles, and protecting jelly from air, etc., is really paraffin. Sealing wax, shoemaker's wax, floor and furniture waxes, ear wax, etc. are other well known waxes; however, they have nothing to do with the wax, waxes, waxed, waxing presented in this word-entry.