Decrease and Wreck

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.

noun

• Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation.
  • usage: "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"
• An accident that destroys a ship at sea.
  • synonyms: shipwreck
• A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles. )
  • usage: "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
  • synonyms: crash
• A ship that has been destroyed at sea.

verb

• Smash or break forcefully.
  • usage: "The kid busted up the car"
  • synonyms: bust up, wrack

• (v.t.&n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
• (v.t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
• (v.i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives or in plundering.
• (v.t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
• (v.t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
• (v.t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
• (v.t.) To destroy, disable or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder or the like; to shipwreck.
• (v.t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore or on rocks or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
• (v.t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
• (v.i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
• (v.t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.