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(n)
(uncountable) The subtraction itself; decrease.
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(adj)
(of a transformer etc.) That reduces a voltage.
A lessening, decrease or reduction.
(v)
(transitive) To make smaller.
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
(programming) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from source code in order to reduce its size.
becoming smaller
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
declining; growing less
A gradual diminishing of strength.
The act of something being lowered.
The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
decline
lessened, reduced
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
A downgrade; a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
(transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
Having been lessened.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
An act of demoting; a lowering of rank or status.
The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.
The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
(ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
A decrease in scope, extension or severity.
(intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
(intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc.
A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.
(orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
An act in which a company downsizes or is downsized.
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
A deceleration; a slowing down.
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
(adv)
To a smaller extent or degree.
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
The act of declining or refusing something.
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
The process of becoming narrow.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
An instance of descending; act of coming down.
The act or instance of suppressing.
(N)
a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason.
A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
Separated, cut off or broken apart.
(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
(transitive) To make weaker or less strong.
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
A curtailment or reduction.
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
(chemistry) That causes reduction.
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
An instance or process of loss of strength.
(transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
The act of curtailing.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
The act of deleting.
allowed to drop or fall.
(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.
Moving or sloping downwards.
Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
Rendered less effective.
The process of making something soft.
The act by which something is eased.
The decline in value of assets.
A disability or handicap.
the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
That serves to mitigate.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.