reduce
Verb
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subtypes:
- shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- spill - reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce
- slash - cut drastically
- thin out - make sparse
- thin - make thin or thinner
- detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish
- deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
- inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- downsize - (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees
- subtract - take off or away
- knock off, shave - cut the price of
verb group: cut - have a reducing effect -
is a type of: simplify - make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extentsubtypes: abbreviate - shorten
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is a type of: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
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referred to in: math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangementis a type of: exchange, interchange, replace, substitute - put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
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subtypes:
- reduce, scale down - make smaller
- reef - reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
- miniaturise, miniaturize - design or construct on a smaller scale
- depopulate, desolate - reduce in population
- downsize - design or manufacture in a smaller size
- contract - make smaller
same as: shrink -
is a type of: impoverish - make poor
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same as: scale down
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referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactionsis a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesubtypes:
- benficiate - subject to a reduction process
- pole - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
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is a type of: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel - place limits on (extent or amount or access)same as: tighten
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is a type of: reposition - place into another position
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referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of languagesubtypes: obscure - reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
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subtypes:
- bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- concentrate, condense, digest - make more concise
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referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
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referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heatsame as: boil down, concentrate
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is a type of: weaken - lessen the strength ofsubtypes: water down - make less strong or intense
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is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or actionsubtypes: sweat off - lose weight by sweating
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