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Slouch vs Decrease - What's the difference?

slouch | decrease |

In lang=en terms the difference between slouch and decrease

is that slouch is to walk in a clumsy, lazy manner while decrease is to make (a quantity) smaller.

As nouns the difference between slouch and decrease

is that slouch is a hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance while decrease is an amount by which a quantity is decreased.

As verbs the difference between slouch and decrease

is that slouch is to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture while decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller.

slouch

English

Noun

  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    • He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
  • any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    • The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
  • someone who is slow to act
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
  • (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

    • Derived terms

    * slouch hat

    Verb

  • To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    • Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    • I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

    References

    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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