Decrease and Heave

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

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Heave is an antonym for decrease.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

Heave verb - To lift with effort.

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Decrease is an antonym for heave in lift topic.

Nearby Words: heavy, heaviness, heaved, heaven, heaving

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