Usually means: To become greater in amount.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word increase:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. increase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. increase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. increase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. increase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. increase: Vocabulary.com
  6. Increase, increase: Wordnik
  7. increase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Increase, increase: Wiktionary
  9. increase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. increase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. increase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Increase, increase: Dictionary.com
  13. increase (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. increase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Increase (given name), Increase (knitting), Increase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Increase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. increase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. increase: Rhymezone
  19. increase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. increase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. increase: Free Dictionary
  22. increase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. increase: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. increase: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. increase: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. increase: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. increase: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Increase: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See increasable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
verb:  (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
verb:  To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
verb:  (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
noun:  An amount by which a quantity is increased.
noun:  For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
noun:  Offspring, progeny
noun:  (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
noun:  (historical, used by Puritans) A male given name.

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