Increase
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.
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Increase Quotations
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama
But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
Barack Obama
You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
Increase Translations
increase in Danish is tiltagende
increase in Dutch is opdrijven, verheffen, ophogen
increase in French is agrandir, accroitre, augmentons, augmentez
increase in Latin is auctus, amplio, progressio, ingemino, cresco
increase in Portuguese is aumento
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