INCREASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does increased mean? 

• INCREASED (adjective)
  The adjective INCREASED has 1 sense:

1. made greater in size or amount or degree

  Familiarity information: INCREASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made greater in size or amount or degree

Similar:

accrued; accumulated (periodically accumulated over time)

augmented (added to or made greater in amount or number or strength)

enhanced (increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality)

hyperbolic; inflated (enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness)

enlarged; exaggerated; magnified (enlarged to an abnormal degree)

multiplied (greatly increased as by multiplication)

elevated; raised (increased in amount or degree)

redoubled (become much greater in intensity or size or amount)

Antonym:

decreased (made less in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

Expression of ICAM-1 (CD54) is increased by inflammatory signals, increasing adhesion and permeation of lymphocytes into inflamed tissues.

(Adhesion Molecules on Lymphocyte Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

All my old fear of him returned and by my new fear was increased an hundred-fold.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An inherited or acquired condition characterized by abnormally increased levels of methemoglobin in the blood.

(Methemoglobinemia, NCI Thesaurus)

This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The party at the Great House was sometimes increased by other company.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Between 1948–2000, mean annual temperatures in Yakutat increased by 1.38° Celsius (2.48° Fahrenheit).

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

People with all subtypes of MEN2 have an increased risk of medullary thyroid cancer, pheochromocytoma, and parathyroid gland cancer.

(MEN2, NCI Dictionary)

The twelve huntsmen always followed the king to the chase, and his liking for them continually increased.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Increased expression of MITF and its activation by phosphorylation (P) stimulate the transcription of tyrosinase (TYR), tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TYRP1), and dopachrome tautomerase (DCT), which produce melanin.

(Melanogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Patients with MGUS are at an increased risk of developing cancer.

(MGUS, NCI Dictionary)