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downscaleverb to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthe poor economy forced the plant to downscale production abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, deplete, diminish, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble in 1930 |