decreased
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
Rainfall decreased sharply across the region during the drought.
The company's profits have decreased for three consecutive quarters.
Note
One spelling serves both the past tense and the participle, and the verb behind it runs two ways. Used intransitively, a quantity simply decreased, or has decreased, on its own. Used transitively, someone decreased it, and only then is a passive possible: the dose was decreased. Knitters use the transitive sense for stitches. A decreased stitch is one knitted together with another or suspended from a neighboring stitch.
The doctor decreased the dose after the first week.
The dose was decreased after the first week.
decreased is a form of decrease
decrease, verb: Of a quantity, to grow smaller in size, number, or degree. Full entry
- Forms
- decreasedecreases he/she/itdecreasing -ing formdecreased past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- decrease → decreased: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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