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INCREASE

increase - v 
become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" 
make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" 

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Synonyms

accelerate, add (to), aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build up, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hype, multiply, pump up, raise, swell, stoke, supersize, up

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Examples

Howard had to pull out of the driveway slowly and gradually increase his speed.

That brings us back to the thousandfold increase in wealth, which the world will soon experience.

In the modern era, what we have seen around the world is a general increase in social services and the welfare state over time.

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Etymology

mid-14c., encresen, "become greater in size or number" (intransitive); late 14c., "cause to grow, enlarge" (transitive), from Anglo-French encress-, Old French encreiss-, present participle stem of encreistre, from Latin increscere "to increase, to grow upon, grow over, swell, grow into," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + crescere "to grow" (from PIE root *ker- (2) "to grow"). Modern English restored the Latin spelling 16c. Related: Increased; increasing.

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