Decrease and Want

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

want

A state of extreme poverty.
- synonyms: privation, deprivation, neediness
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
- usage: "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
- synonyms: lack, deficiency
Anything that is necessary but lacking.
- usage: "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
- synonyms: need
A specific feeling of desire.
- usage: "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire"
- synonyms: wish, wishing

Feel or have a desire for; want strongly.
- usage: "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
- synonyms: desire
Have need of.
- usage: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
- synonyms: need, require
Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason.
- usage: "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
Wish or demand the presence of.
- usage: "I want you here at noon"
Be without, lack; be deficient in.
- usage: "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

(v.t.) To be without; to be destitute of or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
(v.t.) To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
(v.i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
(v.i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
(v.i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
(v.i.) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
(v.t.) To have occasion for, as useful, proper or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
(v.i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
(v.i.) That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary