fashion vs increase

fashion

verb
  • To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way. 

noun
  • Popular trends. 

  • The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution. 

  • A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. 

  • A style or manner in which something is done. 

increase

verb
  • To make (a quantity, etc.) larger. 

  • To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. 

  • To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. 

  • (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. 

noun
  • The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting). 

  • For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger 

  • Offspring, progeny 

  • An amount by which a quantity is increased. 

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