Increase and Need

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Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.

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Need and increase are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a verb "Increase".

Need verb - To have as a requirement.

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Increase and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Increase" instead a verb "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

natural	natural increase	natural need
many	many increase	many need
actual	actual increase	actual need
large	large increase	large need
Other adjectives: big, huge, little, new, dramatic, immediate, general, less, further, greater, perceived, sudden.

ability	increase ability	need ability
skill	increase skill	need skill
energy	increase energy	need energy
power	increase power	need power
Other words: strength, amount, number, time, money, points, skills, powers.

Flying units in Super Robot Wars can be intentionally moved along the ground by the players in case they need terrain bonuses, like, say, make a unit move into a forest to increase chances to evade.

Source: Acrophobic Bird
You need to increase that parameter to get the guy, but nothing in the game actually tells you which parameter the guy is associated with.

Source: Guide Dang It / Visual Novels
Hostile Terraforming: Krakun need significant atmospheric sulfur levels, they attempted to increase Gerootec's sulfur levels, and accidentally turned it into a volcanic hellhole.

Source: Literature / Ten Thousand Miles Up

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