increased
- 1Simple past and past participle of increase.
The company increased its workforce during the boom.
Tensions had increased steadily before the talks collapsed.
Note
Because increase works both with and without an object, its participle splits two ways. Without an object it pairs with have: prices have increased, the swelling had increased overnight. With one, it can also turn passive with be: the dose was increased, meaning someone did the increasing. To choose between was increased and had increased, ask whether something grew on its own or was made larger.
The dose was increased after the first week.
Prices have increased every year since the merger.
increased is a form of increase
increase, verb: To become, or to make something, larger or greater in amount, number, size or degree. Full entry
- Forms
- increaseincreases he/she/itincreasing -ing formincreased past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- increase → increased: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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