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Definition of Decreased
1. Adjective. Made less in size or amount or degree.
Similar to: Ablated, Attenuate, Attenuated, Faded, Weakened, Attenuated, Bated, Belittled, Diminished, Small, Cut, Slashed, Diminished, Minimized, Remittent, Shriveled, Shrivelled, Shrunken
Antonyms: Increased
Definition of Decreased
1. Verb. (past of decrease) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decreased
1. decrease [v] - See also: decrease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decreased
Literary usage of Decreased
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"was sixty-four, so that for one region of the State where a bird had increased,
there were six regions where it had decreased. For twenty species ten times ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The gold coin on hand not represented by certificates decreased ... payment of
matured debt and to the decreased issue of currency and silver certificates. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This decreased the length and improved the Fig. 3 into "emergency" position where
the brake pipe air was vented to the atmosphere through a large opening. ..."
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