slash
cut
take down
bring down
benficiate
reductionistically
reducing
downbear
minimalize
skinny
reductionally
trim
reducer
axe
look down
shred
falloff
diminishing
constrain
attrition
overreduction
sextate
imminution
reductional
decoct
batement
ease
diminution
nonreduction
retrench
dwindling
devaluate
lessen
lighten
lessened
retrenchment
saving
come down
drop off
scale back
reducible
drawdown
abbreviation
shorten
fritter away
minorate
dock
hatchet job
cut back
slag
downshift
cut down
slide
abbreviate
rereduce
lowerable
taper
dwindle
disimprovement
overreduced
cutback
unreduced
depletion
draw down
quintessentialize
wear off
exponential decay
unreducing
pseudoreduction
dial down
discount
de-emphasis
degressive
desaturate
minimizer
commensurate
trim back
reduce
trim down
nosedive
tail-off
go down
lower
weakened
unpopulate
downgauge
whisk off
defeat
cut
reducing
reductional
lessened
reducible
lowerable
overreduced
unreduced
unreducing
degressive
weakened
reductionistically
reductionally
slash
reducer
axe
falloff
diminishing
overreduction
imminution
batement
diminution
nonreduction
dwindling
retrenchment
saving
drawdown
abbreviation
hatchet job
downshift
disimprovement
cutback
depletion
exponential decay
pseudoreduction
discount
de-emphasis
minimizer
cut
nosedive
tail-off
slash
take down
bring down
benficiate
downbear
minimalize
skinny
trim
look down
shred
constrain
attrition
sextate
decoct
cut
ease
retrench
devaluate
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noun
- A sharp reduction.
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
verb
- To reduce sharply.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To strike violently and randomly
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
adv
conj
adj
- Reduced.
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
verb
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
noun
- A decrease.
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
intj
verb
- To reduce.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
verb
- To reduce.
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- To make someone feel bad emotionally.
- To make a ruler lose their position of power.
- To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
- To humble.
verb
adj
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- tight-fitting
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
noun
verb
- To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- To dress; to make smooth.
- To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
- The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
adv
noun
- Something that reduces.
- A reducing agent.
- A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
- A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
- A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
- A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
noun
- A drastic reduction or cutback.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
verb
verb
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
noun
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
adj
verb
- To undergo a reduction in number.
- To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- To grind or wear down through friction.
noun
- A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death.
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- Imperfect contrition or remorse.
- The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.
- The loss of participants during an experiment.
- The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
noun
verb
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To proceed with little effort.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To lessen in intensity.
- To give respite to (someone).
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
verb
- To cut down or reduce.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
verb
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
noun
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- The action of the verb to save.
- Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Relating to making a saving.
- Making reservation or exception.
prep
verb
- To decrease.
- To reach a decision.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.
- To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
- To rain.
- To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- To be demolished.
- To be passed through time.
- To descend, fall down, collapse.
noun
- The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
- The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion.
- The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
- A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
- (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
- The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.
- The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.
noun
- Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- The process of abbreviating.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
verb
verb
- To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- To join two moving items.
- To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
- To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- To land at a harbour.
- To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
noun
- The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- The body of water between two piers.
verb
- To reduce to slag.
- To spit.
- To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- To produce slag.
noun
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- A prostitute, or a woman who acts like one; a slut.
- Waste material from a mine.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- A contemptible person, a scumbag.
noun
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- A shift of a transmission into a lower gear.
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
verb
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
noun
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
verb
verb
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
noun
- A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
- An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
- Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
noun
- A reduction in price.
- The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
- The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
- A lack or shortcoming.
verb
- To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
- To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
- To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
adj
verb
- To decrease in saturation.
- To undergo a decrease in the oxygen saturation level in the hemoglobin.
- To convert (a saturated compound) to an unsaturated one.
- To lessen the saturation of (a colour).
- To cause to become less saturated or unsaturated.
- Of the oxygen saturation level in one's hemoglobin: to decrease, to drop.
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make less complex
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- be the essential element
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen and make more modest
- make smaller
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- narrow or limit
- put down by force or intimidation
- undergo meiosis
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- take off weight
verb
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- To crash.
- To be soundly defeated.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- To be received or accepted.
- To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- To perform oral sex.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- To take place, happen.
- To sink.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- To stop functioning, to go offline.
- To be recorded or remembered (as).
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
verb
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To bring down; to humble
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- To reduce the height of
- To depress as to direction
- to pull down
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- To make less elevated
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
adj
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