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1. Made greater in size, amount or degree

1. Become bigger or greater in amount
   "The amount of work increased"
    
2. Make bigger or more
   "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"
    
3. Add something extra to make more intense or better
   "This will increase your enjoyment";
   - enhance, heighten, raise

See also: accrued, accumulated, augmented, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, exaggerated, hyperbolic, inflated, magnified, multiplied, raised, redoubled

Type of: alter, change, change magnitude, compound, deepen, heighten, intensify, modify

Antonym: decrease, diminish, reduced

Encyclopedia: Increase, Mississippi