Decreases is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECREASES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DECREASE, to diminish, also DECREW
• make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree
NOUN:
• an instance of becoming smaller or fewer

Words related to DECREASES

decrease11 decreased13 decreasing14

How to use DECREASES in a sentence

• After six generations the strength of the spawn decreases and the yield of the mushrooms will be less.
• The instant it stops or decreases speed beyond a certain point, in that same instant it must fall to the earth.
• The difference in the length of day and night decreases more and more the nearer you approach the Equator.
• The greater the number of the intermediate steps, the more the clearness and distinctness of the knowledge decreases, and the more the possibility of error increases.
• Are you defrauded when he feeds the poor? Our mite decreases nothing of your store.
• As the rate of the rod now further decreases, a confused state ensues which cannot be described.
• Having attained physical growth, the adult does not demand as much physical activity as does the child and as years increase the tendency toward physical activity decreases.
• One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light.
• Later, in Section 288, we learned that the strength of the current decreases as the resistance in circuit increases.
• While the manufacture of beer steadily increases, the growth of hops steadily decreases.
• As the reproductive rate decreases, so does the death-rate, for a larger proportion of those born are able to find food and to escape enemies.
• The effects of training are not to store up energy in the body, for it has been proved that work decreases rather than increases the amount of energy in the body.
• The decreases are below the center line and the increases above it.
• This decreases the probability of any vital part being left out and increases the probability of the receiver or reader understanding it.
• The grade is from 4 to 5 per cent over the first six miles of the way, and subsequently decreases to 1 per cent.
• The first course of the snow house should be thicker than the others, and the thickness of the walls gradually decreases toward the top.
• Pushing the wire, B, down into the water increases the surface in contact, and thus decreases the resistance.
• I do not doubt that this is usually the case, and that the fertility often suddenly decreases in the first few generations.
• In rates of growths lower than 16 rings per inch, the average strength of the material decreases, apparently approaching a uniform condition above 24 rings per inch.
• Upon the whole, however, as a tree gets larger in diameter the width of the growth rings decreases.
• Moment by moment the density of astonishment decreases.
• What can be done to eliminate everything which diminishes and decreases efficiency, and what remains to be done to reinforce it.
• This follows from the facts that the resistance of a liquid decreases as its temperature rises, and that chemical action is much slower at lower temperatures.
• As it cools, the sides and surface begin to harden, its velocity decreases, and after several days it moves only a few yards an hour.
• The volcanic energy continues southward toward the Isthmus, but decreases north of this volcanic range.
• The tradition of the banquet of the dead is still kept up, but the number of the skeletons in each tomb steadily decreases.
• The uncertainty of punishment is the great bulwark of crime, and crime has a marvellous knack of diminishing in proportion as this uncertainty decreases.
• The advances of medicine are only apparent, while statistics show that tuberculosis, a disease of early life, decreases, cancer and diseases of later life increase.
• The three cutters, when inserted within the iron cylinder, form upon their inner surface a small cavity which decreases towards the top.

Similar words containing CREASE without suffix s and without prefix de

crease8 creased10 creaser9 creases9 creasers10 decrease11 encrease10 increase10 uncrease10 decreased13 encreased12 encreases11 increased12 increaser11 increases11 precrease13 uncreased12 creaseless12 increasers12 pancreases14 precreased15 precreases14 reincrease12 increasedly17 increaseful16 reincreased14 reincreases13 hepatopancrease24 hepatopancreases25

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