disincrease

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ increase

Noun

disincrease (plural disincreases)

1. (rare) The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
   • 1902, Table Talk - Volume 17, page 41:

     It takes brisk, frosty weather for this lest the meat should spoil before being salted down and put away; and the darkies say it is bad luck to kill hogs except in “the disincrease" of the moon.

   • 1970, Recusant History - Volumes 9-10, page 263:

     In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.

   • 1898, New York (State). Department of Health, Annual Report - Volume 18, page 490:

     From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase of 125 in deaths from consumption.

Verb

disincrease (third-person singular simple present disincreases, present participle disincreasing, simple past and past participle disincreased)

1. (rare) To diminish; to decrease in size or number.
   • 1883, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, page 48:

     My people have been so unhappy for a long time they wish now to disincrease, instead of multiply.

   • 1963, Gothenburg Studies in English - Volume 15, page 20:

     The difference between the large and the small vocabulary is evidently not only that the proportion of words containing the component disincreases, but also that the analysis is much more complete as the vocabulary is increased.

   • 2000, Drug Interactions Guide:

     Coadministration in individuals on immunosuppressant doses of corticosteroids can result in more extensive vaccine-associated rash or disincreased potential for neurotoxicity and/or nephrotoxicity.

Anagrams

• residencias