Concept cluster: Activities > Reducing or lowering something
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(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
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To be reduced in quantity through attrition.
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(intransitive) To undergo a reduction in number.
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abatement; diminution
adj
Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
n
A decrease in scope, extension or severity.
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(transitive) To reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
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An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
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To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit.
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To decrease in number.
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(intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
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A driving or thrusting away.
adj
Driving or thrusting away; averting.
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(transitive) To reduce the stresses in a material.
adj
lessened, reduced
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To lead to diminution, to lessen.
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(rare) The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
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To make less intense.
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(transitive, intransitive) To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
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A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
adj
(marketing) Having lesser capabilities or a lower version number.
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The placing of something lower on a list.
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(transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
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(transitive) To give something a lower rating.
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(medicine) To gradually reduce a dosage while observing the effects; (and usually, especially) to arrive at the optimal dose by so doing.
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The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion.
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To beat or draw (a metal object, etc.) out so as to lessen the thickness.
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(intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
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(transitive) To make flexible/more flexible.
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(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
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(intransitive) To become less.
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(transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
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(transitive, logic) To infer by obversion.
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(transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
adj
Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
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To decrease again.
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(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
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(obsolete, transitive) To reduce.
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The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
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(transitive, military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make or become slight; make or become less pronounced, less noticeable, or less obvious.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make or become small; diminish
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(transitive, intransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more lenis, to lenite.
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(transitive) To modify (a CPU) by the use of underclocking.
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(transitive) To soften.
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(transitive) To make weaker or less strong.

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