| increase | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. | |
| His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money. | |
| 2. v. To make (a quantity, etc.) larger. | |
| 3. v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. | |
| 4. v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. | |
| The Moon increases. | |
| 5. n. An amount by which a quantity is increased. | |
| 6. n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger | |
| 7. n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting). | |
