Definition of Increase

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Increase

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.

To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.

To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.

Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.

That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

Progeny; issue; offspring.

Generation.

The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.

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Increase Quotations

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mohandas Gandhi

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne

Increase Translations

increase in Danish is tiltagende
increase in Dutch is opdrijven, verheffen, ophogen
increase in French is agrandir, accroitre, augmentons, augmentez
increase in Latin is auctus, amplio, progressio, ingemino, cresco
increase in Portuguese is aumento

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