increase

IPA: ɪnkrˈis

(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
(transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

Examples of "increase" in Sentences

Bronfman also stressed that MTV would help the label increase artist visibility online.
Some of the increase is also attributable to home improvements and remodeling investments.
However, the term increase - once considered a lock - is less certain, as party leaders squabble over the budget.
Is it true that for 200 years the only increase in the wealth and resources of Virginia, has been a remnant of the natural _increase_ of this miserable race?
This is no condition of things to increase births, or diminish deaths, unless brothels give _increase_, and squalid poverty the requisite sympathy and aid, to recover the sick and dying, from the period of infancy to that of old age.