Decrease and Resist

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.

verb

• Elude, especially in a baffling way.
  • usage: "This behavior defies explanation"
  • synonyms: defy, refuse
• Stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something.
  • synonyms: hold out, withstand, stand firm
• Express opposition through action or words.
  • usage: "dissent to the laws of the country"
  • synonyms: protest, dissent
• Withstand the force of something.
  • usage: "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"
  • synonyms: stand, fend
• Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ.
  • usage: "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
  • synonyms: reject, refuse
• Refuse to comply.
  • synonyms: balk, baulk, jib

• (n.) Something that resists or prevents a certain action;.
• (n.) A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent.
• (v.t.) To be distasteful to.
• (v.i.) To make opposition.
• (v.t.) To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
• (v.t.) To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
• (n.) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
• (v.t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.