increase

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To become greater or larger.
2. v. To multiply; reproduce.
3. v. To make greater or larger.
4. n. The act of increasing: a steady increase in temperature.
5. n. The amount or rate by which something is increased: a tax increase of 15 percent.
6. n. Obsolete Reproduction and spread; propagation.
7. idiom. on the increase Increasing, especially in frequency of occurrence: Crime is on the increase.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To become greater in any respect; become enlarged, extended, or multiplied; grow or advance in size, quantity, number, degree, etc.; augment; multiply; wax, as the moon.
2. To make greater in any respect; enlarge or extend in bulk, quantity, number, degree, etc.; add to; enhance; aggravate: opposed to diminish.
3. n. A growing larger, as in size, number, quantity, degree, etc.; augmentation; enlargement; extension; multiplication.
4. n. The amount or number added to the original stock, or by which the original stock is augmented; increment; profit; interest; produce; issue; offspring.
5. n. In astronomy, the period of increasing light or an increasing luminous phase; the waxing, as of the moon.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive, of a quantity to become larger.
2. v. transitive To make (a quantity) larger.
3. n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
4. n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
5. n. knitting The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
2. v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
3. v. (Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
4. v. To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate.
5. n. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
6. n. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
7. n. Progeny; issue; offspring.
8. n. obsolete Generation.
9. n. (Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become bigger or greater in amount
2. v. make bigger or more
3. n. a quantity that is added
4. n. the act of increasing something
5. n. a change resulting in an increase
6. n. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
7. n. the amount by which something increases