Adjective: decreased di'kreest
- Made less in size, amount or degree
"The decreased budget forced the company to cut back on expenses";
- reduced
- Become reduced in amount, level, intensity, or value
"The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester";
- diminish, lessen, fall, come down, go down, sink, dent
- Make become smaller
"He decreased his staff";
- lessen, minify
See also: ablated, attenuate, attenuated, bated, belittled, cut, diminished, faded, minimised [Brit], minimized, remittent, shriveled [US], shrivelled [Brit, Cdn], shrunken, slashed, small, weakened
Type of: alter, change, change magnitude, modify
Encyclopedia: Decrease