reincrease

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UK/ˌɹiːɪŋˈkɹiːs/

verb

To increase again.

First used 16th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

verbreincrease (third-person singular simple present reincreases, present participle reincreasing, simple past and past participle reincreased)

present singular third person reincreases · participle present reincreasing · participle past reincreased · past reincreased

  1. transitiveTo increase again.First known use 16th c.

    Tho when they did perceave Their wounds recur'd, and forces reincreast, Of that good Hermite both they tooke their leave […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
nounreincrease (plural reincreases)

plural reincreases

  1. A second or subsequent increase.

Origin

From re- + increase.

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APA

reincrease. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reincrease

MLA

“reincrease.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reincrease. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reincrease,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reincrease.

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