Decrease vs Decease - What's the difference?
decrease | decease |
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
(knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .
(formal) death
(obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life
To die.
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As verbs the difference between decrease and decease
is that decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller while decease is to die.As nouns the difference between decrease and decease
is that decrease is an amount by which a quantity is decreased while decease is (formal) death.decrease
English
Verb
(decreas)Synonyms
* (become smaller) drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make smaller) abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduceAntonyms
* (become larger) go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increase, increment, raise, up (informal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkageAntonyms
* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) gain, increase, increment, raise , risedecease
English
Noun
(death) (-)Verb
(deceas)- After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased : and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.