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increase - verb

  1. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal beef up. See increase.
  2. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind: breed, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce, spawn. See reproduction.

increase - noun

  1. The act of increasing or rising: aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, hike, jump, multiplication, proliferation, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn. See increase.
  2. The amount by which something is increased: advance, boost, hike, increment, jump, raise, rise. See increase.
  3. The process by which an organism produces others of its kind: breeding, multiplication, procreation, proliferation, propagation, reproduction, spawning. See reproduction.