Decreased vs Exsiccate - What's the difference?

decreased | exsiccate |

As verbs the difference between decreased and exsiccate

is that decreased is (decrease) while exsiccate is to dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.

decreased

English

Verb

(head)

(decrease)

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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exsiccate

English

Verb

(exsiccat)

To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.

*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 147:

*:The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.

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