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(v)
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
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(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
(n)
(uncountable) The subtraction itself; decrease.
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
(adj)
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
(ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
(transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
(intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
(transitive) To remove or reduce the emphasis from something; to make something less important; to play down.
(transitive) To lower or remove the value of something.
(intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(transitive) To make weaker or less strong.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
The act of declining or refusing something.
(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
(chemistry) That causes reduction.
(transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
(transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To break into crumbs.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
(transitive) To make something soft or softer.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
(transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
That serves to mitigate.
To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
(transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
(transitive) To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
(transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
(intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.
(intransitive, rarely transitive, figuratively) To interfere with.
(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
To make depressed, sad or bored.
(transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
(transitive) To influence or alter.
(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.
(transitive) To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
(transitive) To make something less bright.
(transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
(transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
To impede in motion or progress.
(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
To be or make a bridge over something.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of minimize. [(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.]
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of trivialize. [(transitive) To make something appear trivial]
made less in size or amount or degree
(botany) Directed obliquely.
(intransitive) to flow back or recede
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
A slender wax candle.
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
(ambitransitive) To make or become small; diminish
Obsolete form of diminish. [(transitive) To make smaller.]
To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
To reduce, to lessen.
(transitive) To make small or less significant.
(rare) The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
(ambitransitive) To diminish again.
A surname from Irish.
(transitive, obsolete) To administer or govern.
(ambitransitive) To reduce weight; to make or become thinner.
(ambitransitive) To make or become slight; make or become less pronounced, less noticeable, or less obvious.
(transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of.