Decrease
Decrease verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Spread out is an antonym for decrease.
Spread out
Spread out verb - To arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area.
Both terms in one sentence
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Away from a telephone-exchange, the force any one man could receive information from and give orders to within the space of a minute was limited to less than a hundred metres and about that number of men (men spread out to decrease losses from artillery fire).
Source: Frontline General
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