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shoal
narrowingly
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constriction
squidge
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irreducible
coarctation
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minigap
dwarf
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underlengthen
scale down
slim
porous
overexpand
provincial
tapered
force
shallow-wittedness
fill-in
shorten
smallen
squeeze
decreasing
lacune
decompactify
overshortening
scaleout
unnarrow
specialize
funnel
telescope
lens
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shrinkable
irreducible
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porous
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densening
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minigap
shallow-wittedness
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pack out
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taper
wedge
scrimp
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small
tighten
underreach
overthin
slacken
close
rack
spackle
overlengthen
degrow
uneven
loose
loosen
renarrow
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diminish
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decompactify
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funnel
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lens
slit
verb
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- make smaller
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- engage by written agreement
- squeeze or press together
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- become smaller or draw together
- compress or concentrate
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
noun
verb
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To diminish gradually.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
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.
adj
verb
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- narrow or limit
- make smaller
- 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
- 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
- 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
noun
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- One who fits an item of that size.
- One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
adv
adj
- Young, as a child.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- That is small (the manufactured size).
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
adj
- tight-fitting
- 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).
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
verb
noun
verb
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Narrow; confined.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
verb
- stretch to the limits
- go at a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- run before a gale
- fly in high wind
- draw off from the lees
- torment emotionally or mentally
- work on a rack
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- torture on the rack
noun
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- make loose or looser
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
adv
adj
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- not affixed
adj
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not officially recognized or controlled
- not literal
- emptying easily or excessively
- not tense or taut
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not carefully arranged in a package
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To make smaller.
- To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
- To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
noun
verb
- To become (much) smaller.
- To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
- To make appear insignificant.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
noun
- A star of relatively small size.
- Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
adj
adj
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- Constituting a province.
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
noun
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- move with force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- do forcibly; exert force
- take by force
noun
- a powerful effect or influence
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- a unit that is part of some military service
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
noun
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- press firmly
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- press or force
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- squeeze or press together
noun
- the act of gripping and pressing firmly
- a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high
- a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer
- (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
- a twisting squeeze
- an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power
- a tight or amorous embrace
- the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space
noun
verb
- To narrow in scope.
- To become distinct or separate from what is common
- To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
- To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
- To be known or notorious for some specialty.
- To specify: to mention specifically.
- To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
verb
- To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
- To use a funnel.
noun
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
verb
noun
- A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
- A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
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