Roget's Thesaurus

#35. Increase

Nouns

increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation etc. (expansion) 194; increment, accretion; accession etc. 37; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent etc. 305; exaggeration exacerbation; spread etc. (dispersion) 73; flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Verbs

increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate etc. (expand) 194; grow, wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend etc. 305; sprout etc. 194. aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino [Lat.], superadd etc. (add) 37; spread etc. (disperse) 73.

Adjectives

increased etc. v.; on the increase, undiminished; additional etc. (added) 37.

Adverbs

crescendo.

Phrases

vires acquirit eundo [Lat.] [Vergil].