Decrease and Speeding up

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

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Speeding up is an antonym for decrease.

Nearby Words: decreased, decreasing, decrement, decremented

Definitions of Decrease not found.

Decrease is an antonym for speeding up in topics: adjoin, increase, accelerate.

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Speeding up and Decrease. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/decrease/speeding_up

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