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1. to become larger.
2. To make (a quantity) larger.

Synonyms

• become larger go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly)
• make larger increment, raise, up

Antonyms

• become larger decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink
• make larger cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce

Etymology

From Middle English encresen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of increscō, from in (“in, on”) + crescō (“grow”).