"decrease" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

decrease verbo

decrease + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 64
decrease several percent • decrease the amount • decrease the risk • decrease the effectiveness • decrease one's ability • ...
verbo + decrease
Kolokacji: 6
need to be decreased • help decrease • begin to decrease • tend to decrease • used to decrease • ...
decrease + preposición
Kolokacji: 25
decrease over • decrease during • decreased by • decrease from • decrease in • ...
decrease + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 39
significantly decrease • gradually decrease • decrease dramatically • steadily decrease • decrease rapidly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) significantly, necessarily
Kolokacji: 2
(4) greatly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(5) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(6) substantially, considerably
Kolokacji: 2
(7) markedly, noticeably
Kolokacji: 2
(8) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
  • During the late 1960s, funding for the biological warfare program decreased temporarily, to accommodate the accelerating costs of the Vietnam War.
  • Increased levels of free adenosine temporarily decrease pain, allowing over exertion without awareness.
  • The ozone acts inside the leaves to harm the membranes of cells, temporarily decreasing the tree's ability to take in necessary nutrients.
  • Competing systems may temporarily decrease prices but they increase the cost of care in the long run.
  • The presence of a work train on a given section of track will temporarily decrease the capacity of the route.
  • The worldwide avian flu scare of 2005 temporarily decreased sales by as much as 40 per cent.
  • This temporarily decreased the number of attack, though the tigers appeared to become habituated to the masks and attacks again increased in the following years.
  • Price promotion allow companies to sell higher volumes by temporarily decreasing the price of their products.
  • These plants can also withstand variation in load and consumption by adding more units or temporarily decreasing the production of some units.
  • A boss who asks their employees to work overtime may try to motivate them by using small talk to temporarily decrease their difference in status.
4. consistently decrease = konsekwentnie zmniejsz consistently decrease
(10) linearly, monotonically
Kolokacji: 2

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