[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/decrease/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) / decrease # decrease verb (decrease, decreases, decreased, decreasing); noun (a decrease, decreases) «decrease» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To decrease is to become smaller or fewer in size, number or amount. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#m1) 2. To decrease something is to make it smaller or less. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#m2) 3. A decrease is a fall in amount or number. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#m3) ### In the lessons In maths, decrease means take away or reduce: «decrease 50 by 10» gives 40, and a percentage decrease of 10% of 50 is 5. In science, temperature, speed or population can decrease; on a graph a decrease is a line going down. Phrases: decrease by, decrease in, a sharp decrease, increase and decrease. ### Examples - Decrease 20 by 5 and you get 15. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x1) - The temperature decreased at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x2) - The number of bees has decreased. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x3) - There was a decrease in the price of apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x4) - Slow down to decrease your speed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x5) - The graph shows a steady decrease. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x6) - Sales decreased by half. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x7) - As the warmth increased, the Snow Man decreased. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/#x8) ### Note Stress: verb usually de-CREASE, noun DE-crease. Opposite: increase. Trap in maths: «decrease by 3» means subtract 3, but «decrease to 3» means the new number is 3. A percentage decrease is worked out from the starting amount. ## In Jewish tradition Here it means that the flood waters went down and grew less. In the primary lessons: In maths, decrease means take away or reduce: «decrease 50 by 10» gives 40, and a percentage decrease of 10% of 50 is 5. In science, temperature, speed or population can decrease; on a graph a decrease is a line going down. Phrases: decrease by, decrease in, a sharp decrease, increase and decrease. ### Examples - And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. (Torah GEN.8.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/decrease/#x1) - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. (Torah GEN.8.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/decrease/#x2) - whole number of things, we multiply at each step by a number decreased by a unit " (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/decrease/#x3) - He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. (Writings PSA.107.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/decrease/#x4) ### Note Stress: verb usually de-CREASE, noun DE-crease. Opposite: increase. Trap in maths: «decrease by 3» means subtract 3, but «decrease to 3» means the new number is 3. A percentage decrease is worked out from the starting amount. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «decrease» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrease/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«decrease» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/decrease.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «decrease» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/decrease/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«decrease» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/decrease.html) on Mova free.