Decrease is valid Scrabble Word

Is decrease a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DECREASE in dictionary:

VERB:

to diminish, also DECREW
make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree
make or become less
To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one\'s means.
A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
The wane of the moon.
decrease in size, extent, or range
make smaller

NOUN:

an instance of becoming smaller or fewer
To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.

a change downward
a process of becoming smaller or shorter
the amount by which something decreases
the act of decreasing or reducing something
lessening, reduction

Words related to DECREASE

cutdown13 decreased13 decreases12 decreasing14 decreasingly19 decrew12 drawdown16

Words that contain DECREASE

decreased13 decreases12

How to use DECREASE in a sentence

Furnival was the only man who did not cease his representations, and whose anxiety about the young Mary, who was so blooming and sweet in the shadow of the old, did not decrease.
This is doubtless a wise policy, but it supplies no evidence of decrease in poverty.
Some of these are several miles in length, but decrease considerably in the dry season, when the water becomes salt.
If so, the number of elected persons available for each unit of work must tend to decrease.
In order to decrease this executive pressure I proceeded to assume entire charge of that portion of the hospital in which I happened at the moment to be confined.
I can see no decrease in its vigour or its variety.
Hence the quantity of dry earth must continually increase, and the moisture of the globe decrease, and at last be quite evaporated, if it have not a continual supply.
He seemed to feel that, having undergone the operation, it might ease his position, and decrease possible danger, if he had companions in misery.
This spiritual fire, in which also there is light in its origin, becomes spiritual heat and light, which decrease in their going forth.
This decrease is effected by degrees, which will be treated of in what follows.

Neither the average results nor those of the individual subjects show anywhere a decrease of duration in the progress of the tapping.
In Berkshire and Wiltshire there had been no increase in that period, and in Suffolk an actual decrease.
Beyond question the use of an organ tends to increase its size, and disuse to decrease it.
Of course it will decrease the income from the estate, but not so much as you would think.
In the open field lessening of mobility means a decrease in efficiency, which cannot be tolerated.
Thus from the shores of the Archipelago to the banks of the Euphrates and the Tigris, civilisation and vegetation appear to obey the same law of decrease.
They were becalmed during the whole of the day, but found by the decrease of the depth, that they were drifting close on towards the shore.
As savages cease to be savages, our opportunities of learning their mystic lore must decrease.
The heat should increase for the first fifteen minutes, remain steady for the next fifteen minutes, and may then gradually decrease during the remainder of the baking.
Ancient prejudice has established a notion, that meat killed in the decrease of the moon, will draw up when cooked.
The putting off, therefore, the evil day for another week in the hope of any decrease being rendered unnecessary by the arrival of supplies, met with general applause.
The increased receipts of the Green Box caused a corresponding decrease in the receipts of the surrounding shows.
The fervor of the singer did not decrease, but Harry noticed that he too was moving, moving slowly toward the eastern end of the grove, the same direction that Harry was pursuing.
But this quarrel tends ever to decrease, and therein lies the whole of progress.
He does not increase by a good action, nor decrease by a bad action.
On the whole the evidence suggests increase rather than decrease of innovation and therefore of change.
It was 3 of my fathoms about, and kept its bigness without any sensible decrease even to the top.
David Starr Jordan has written a letter from the seal islands which fully confirms the worst fears about the decrease of the seal herd.
But if our predictions are sound, a positive decrease, and probably a rapid one, is likely to follow.

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