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decreased

adjective as in melted

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Oxygen levels will be decreased to accommodate fewer people.

The trend of decreased interest among younger voters and increased among older appears to be accelerating this year.

“Over the past year, the federal prison population has decreased by 4,800,” he said.

But the number of Mexican children trying to cross the border into the United States has decreased in recent years.

“This company is very sound,” the company's 69-year-old CEO Mike Jeffries said, despite decreased sales.

Uric acid is decreased before an attack of gout and increased afterward, but its etiologic relation is still uncertain.

Red corpuscles and hemoglobin are commonly decreased together, although usually not to the same extent.

(b) In secondary anemia plaques are generally increased, although sometimes decreased.

(c) They are decreased in chronic lymphatic leukemia, and greatly increased in the myelogenous form.

In the former it is usually much decreased; in the latter, generally much increased.

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On this page you'll find 203 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decreased, such as: drained, reduced, vacant, weakened, bare, and collapsed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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