Decrease and Promoted

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

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Promoted is an antonym for decrease.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

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Decrease is an antonym for promoted in topics: help, give a higher position in organization.

In an attempt to decrease Richard Dean Anderson's screen time (he's slowly retiring), his character was promoted to Brigadier General for season 8 and he started running Stargate Command rather than going on missions.

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