Decrease vs Dipped - What's the difference?

decrease | dipped |

As verbs the difference between decrease and dipped

is that decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller while dipped is (dip).

As a noun decrease

is an amount by which a quantity is decreased.

As an adjective dipped is

that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

decrease

English

Verb

(decreas)

Of a quantity, to become smaller.

To make (a quantity) smaller.

Synonyms

* (become smaller) drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make smaller) abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduce

Antonyms

* (become larger) go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increase, increment, raise, up (informal)

Noun

(en noun)

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 .

Synonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage

Antonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is decreased) gain, increase, increment, raise , rise

Anagrams

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dipped

English

Verb

(head)

(dip)

Adjective

(en adjective)

That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

Of headlights: lowered.

(archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.

*1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :

*:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].