| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section III. Quantity | | 2. Comparative Quantity |
| Changes in Quantity |
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| 35. Increase. |
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| NOUN: | INCREASE, augmentation, increasement [rare], addition, enlargement, extension; dilatation (expansion) [See Expansion]; increment, accretion; accession [See Addition]; development, growth; aggrandizement, accumulation, reënforcement, redoubling, intensification, inflation, enhancement, aggravation; rise; ascent [See Ascent]; exaggeration, exacerbation; spread (dispersion) [See Nonassemblage. Dispersion]; flood tide, spring tide.
GAIN, produce, product, profit, gettings [archaic], advantage, booty, plunder, superlucration [rare], clean-up [U. S.].
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| VERB: | INCREASE, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate (expand) [See Expansion]; grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; swell, mount, ascend [See Ascent]; sprout [See Expansion].
AGGRANDIZE; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten, lengthen, greaten [archaic], thicken; eke [archaic], inflate; strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, double, triple, &c.; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino [L.]; superadd (add) [See Addition]; spread (disperse) [See Nonassemblage. Dispersion].
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| ADJECTIVE: | INCREASED &c. v.; on the increase, undiminished; additional (added) [See Addition].
INCREASING, growing, crescent, crescive [rare], lengthening, multiplying, intensifying, intensive, intensitive [rare], incretionary [rare]; crescendo.
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| ADVERB: | crescendo, increasingly.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Vires acquirit eundo.—Vergil
- They go from strength to strength.—Bible
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