Decrease and Help

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

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Help is an antonym for decrease.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Decrease is an antonym for help in topics: aid, improve.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

considerable	considerable decrease	considerable help
actual	actual decrease	actual help
massive	massive decrease	massive help
serious	serious decrease	serious help
Other adjectives: magic, major, general, significant.

An interesting version of this crops up during the Triwizard Tournament—Harry convinces the other three champions that they should all work together and help each together to drastically decrease their chances of dying.

Source: Fanfic / Uzumaki Harry
To decrease the likelihood of this, modern hyperdrives automatically drop a ship into realspace when approaching a mass shadow (which is only of limited help if the shadow belongs to a star or a black hole), and nearly all hyperspace travel uses already plotted routes.

Source: Hyperspace Lanes
Tanks have to balance stacking Stamina (to improve their maximum health and thus their resistance to spike damage) with avoidance/mitigation (to decrease the average amount of damage they take) and threat (to help keep enemies from running off and killing the damage-dealers).

Source: One Stat to Rule Them All

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