Decrease and Crowd

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

crowd

A large number of things or people considered together.
- usage: "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
An informal body of friends.
- usage: "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
- synonyms: crew, gang, bunch

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together.
- usage: "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
- synonyms: herd
Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing.
- usage: "The students crowded the auditorium"
To gather together in large numbers.
- usage: "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
- synonyms: crowd together
Approach a certain age or speed.
- usage: "She is pushing fifty"
- synonyms: push

(v.t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(v.t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(v.t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(v.i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(v.t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(v.t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(v.i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(v.t.) To push, to press, to shove.
(v.t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(v.t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary