Decrease and Dilate

Opposite meaning words

Decrease verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.

Usage example: workers decreased the volume of water flowing through the pipes in order to prevent an overflow

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Dilate is an antonym for decrease.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

Dilate verb - Become wider.

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Decrease is an antonym for dilate in stretch topic.

decrease time

dilate time

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