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(verb) take off weight |
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Synonyms: lose weight, melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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Related Words: change state, sweat off, turn |
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Antonyms: gain |
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(verb) narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" |
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Synonyms: tighten |
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Related Words: bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" |
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Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
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Related Words: decrease, lessen, minify |
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(verb) be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" |
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Synonyms: boil down, come down |
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Related Words: become, turn, turn into, turn to |
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(verb) make smaller; "reduce an image" |
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Synonyms: scale down |
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Related Words: reduce, shrink |
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Antonyms: blow up |
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(verb) make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" |
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Synonyms: simplify |
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Related Words: abbreviate, alter, change |
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(verb) cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
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Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
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Related Words: cut, decrease, deflate, detract, inflate, knock off, lessen, minify, retrench, shave, shorten, slash, take away, thin, thin out |
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(verb) reposition back to its normal site, as of a broken bone, in surgery |
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Related Words: reposition |
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(verb) undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" |
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Related Words: divide, part, separate |
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(verb) lower in grade or rank; "She reduced her niece to a servant"; force somebody into an unpleasant situation |
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Related Words: degrade, demean, disgrace, put down |
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(verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another |
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Related Words: replace, substitute |
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(verb) lessen; "reduced standard of living" |
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Related Words: impoverish |
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(verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" |
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Related Words: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
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(verb) be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" |
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Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
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Synonyms: shrink |
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Related Words: contract, decrease, depopulate, desolate, lessen, miniaturise, miniaturize, minify, reduce, reef, scale down |
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(verb) remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry |
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Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
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Related Words: change, pole |
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(verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" |
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Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
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Related Words: water down, weaken |
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(verb) put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" |
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Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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Related Words: clamp down, crush, oppress, suppress |
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(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" |
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Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
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Related Words: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, concentrate, condense, decrease, expurgate, lessen, minify, shorten |
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