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decrease (verb), decreases; decreased; decreasing
1. To grow or to cause something to grow gradually less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
2. The process of diminishing in size, strength, or amount.
3. Reducing the size, strength, or amount of something.
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(Latin: small, little, less; decline, decrease, diminish; become less, reduce, becoming smaller or shorter)
(Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency. Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia)