Increase is valid Scrabble Word

Is increase a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for INCREASE in dictionary:

VERB:

to become larger, also ENCREASE
become or make greater in size, amount, or degree
make or become greater in size, number, etc
To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one\'s possessions, influence.
Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
Progeny; issue; offspring.

Generation.
The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
become bigger or greater in amount
make bigger or more

NOUN:

a rise in the size, amount, or degree of something
a quantity that is added
a change resulting in an increase
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
the amount by which something increases
the act of increasing something
rise in number, size, etc

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make or become greater

Words related to INCREASE

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Words that contain INCREASE

increased12 increaser11 increases11 increasers12 reincrease12 increasedly17 increaseful16 reincreased14 reincreases13

How to use INCREASE in a sentence

You are busy, owing to the certain increase of work brought about by this murder.
If you wish them to live and increase, you must chip off a bit of the rock on which they are growing.
By acting on it she was able to increase her income and live in tolerable comfort.
But there was no wind, and the apparent size of the steamer did not increase.
Yet, in what we have written may be found the real cause of the increase of bachelors and old maids in society.
Kings went to war with each other simply to increase their territories.
As its area of conquest spread, so did its luxury increase.
If one demanded whether he should buy lands and possession, they said that he should have much ground that should yeeld his increase.
His object was partly to increase her little capital, and partly to divert her mind from meditating so deeply on the loss of her lamented husband.
As they had gained their position by their own merit, it was sought in every way to increase their happiness and their enjoyments.

I wish you many returns of your birthday and increase of happiness with increase of years.
If a bank should increase its branches, it would not be allowed to increase its total issues.
It shall continue unto time everlasting, and day by day its power shall increase.
As to the extent of the demand and its constant tendency to increase, so far, there can be no doubt.
Much more she said, only to increase the anger of the man, whose insane pride was roused to fury the moment that he heard his sister was doomed to eat the bread of a dependent.
Our army would have been swelled by the return of our wounded and sick, without any losses to offset our increase.
Therefore leave your fighting with them, for I to increase my worship I will ride to the twenty knights and help them with all my might and power.
And in this way riches, in their increase, are dangerously imperfect, for, submitting to our eyes this that they promise, they bring just the contrary.
This meant also an increase of the amount which had to be raised by direct taxation.
Emigration has flowed into her territory from all parts of the world in a current which continues to increase in strength.
This would make people more eager to own the bonds, and so would increase their price.
On the other hand, the negroes were threatened with an increase of the galling yoke of slavery.
From the enormous rise of the river, which, last night alone amounted to an increase of ten feet, the passage is one continued scene of anxiety.
An addition of one to our family might so increase her care and labour as to make a servant necessary.

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