Encrease vs. Increase

See Increase.

(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

Example: ‘His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.’;

(transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

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.

Example: ‘The Moon increases.’;

An amount by which a quantity is increased.

For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

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.

Example: ‘The waters increased and bare up the ark.’; ‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’; ‘The heavens forbidBut that our loves and comforts should increase,Even as our days do grow!’;

To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

Example: ‘Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.’;

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.

Example: ‘I will increase the famine.’; ‘Make denialsIncrease your services.’;

Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.

Example: ‘As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.’; ‘For things of tender kind for pleasure madeShoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd.’;

That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

Example: ‘Take thou no usury of him, or increase.’; ‘Let them not live to taste this land's increase.’;

Progeny; issue; offspring.

Example: ‘All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.’;

Generation.

The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon.

Example: ‘Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon.’;

a quantity that is added;

Example: ‘there was an addition to property taxes this year’; ‘they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks’;

a change resulting in an increase;

Example: ‘the increase is scheduled for next month’;

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;

Example: ‘the increase in unemployment’; ‘the growth of population’;

the amount by which something increases;

Example: ‘they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare’;

the act of increasing something;

Example: ‘he gave me an increase in salary’;

become bigger or greater in amount;

Example: ‘The amount of work increased’;

make bigger or more;

Example: ‘The boss finally increased her salary’; ‘The university increased the number of students it admitted’;