decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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(noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
(noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
(verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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(adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
decree | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: edict, fiat, order, rescript |
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(verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) issue a decree | - |
decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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(noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
(verb) grow quieter | - |
decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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