Definition of Decreased

1. Adjective. Made less in size or amount or degree.


Definition of Decreased

1. Verb. (past of decrease) ¹

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Definition of Decreased

1. decrease [v] - See also: decrease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decreased

decouplings
decourous
decoy
decoy-duck
decoy-ducks
decoy cells
decoyed
decoyer
decoyers
decoying
decoyman
decoymen
decoys
decrease
decreased
decreaseless
decreaser
decreasers
decreases
decreasest
decreaseth
decreasing
decreasing function
decreasing functions
decreasing monotonic
decreasingly
decreation

Literary usage of Decreased

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"was sixty-four, so that for one region of the State where a bird had increased, there were six regions where it had decreased. For twenty species ten times ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The gold coin on hand not represented by certificates decreased ... payment of matured debt and to the decreased issue of currency and silver certificates. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This decreased the length and improved the Fig. 3 into "emergency" position where the brake pipe air was vented to the atmosphere through a large opening. ..."

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