Decrease and Improve

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

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Improve is an antonym for decrease in grow less or make less topic.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

Improve verb - To make better.

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Decrease is an antonym for improve in make or become better topic.

power	decrease power	improve power
strength	decrease strength	improve strength
score	decrease score	improve score
balance	decrease balance	improve balance
Other words: reputation, standing, vision, odds, time, speed, health, effectiveness, magic, morale, damage, defense, chances, stat, stats.

Having or lacking Social Attributes/Skils can improve or decrease her appeal by one or two levels.

Source: Sliding Scale of Beauty
Since Nen itself isn't a well known subject matter, there are literally hundreds of unknown variables that can improve or decrease Nen effectiveness.

Source: Equivalent Exchange
To go into more details, forests provide cover from ranged attack, hills improve counter-attack and increase skirmishers' range, swamps decrease defence.

Source: Video Game / Eador

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