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How to pronounce “decrease”
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Pronunciation guide for decrease
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- Practice the English pronunciation of decrease with real speech in context.
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- Sustaining Great Effort - A Buddhist Approach
the causes of suffering and eliminate them, decrease
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
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How to pronounce decrease
Sustaining Great Effort - A Buddhist Approach
the causes of suffering and eliminate them, decrease
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “decrease”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
- [Noun]
- An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
- (knitting, crochet) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
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