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reduceverb to bring to a lower grade or rankwas reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court break, bust, degrade, demote, disrate, downgrade can, cashier, dismiss, downsize, fire, lay off, sackabase, debase, demean, humble, humiliate, lower advance, elevate, promote, raise hire to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentyou'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, deplete, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower 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 to diminish the price or value ofa mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade attenuate, break, cheapen, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, sink, write down, write off debase, demonetizeunderestimate, underprice, underrate, undervalueabridge, compress, contract, de-escalate, deflate, downsize, dwindle, lessen, moderate, shrink appreciate, enhance, mark up, upgrade bloat, blow up, inflateoverestimate, overprice, overrate, overvalueadd, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, boost, compound, dilate, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, heighten, increase, maximize, multiply, raise, swell, up decrease, lessen, diminish, reduce, abate, dwindle mean to grow or make less.decrease suggests a progressive decline in size, amount, numbers, or intensity.slowly decreased the amount of pressure lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number.has been unable to lessen her debt diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its subtraction from a total.his visual acuity has diminished reduce implies a bringing down or lowering.you must reduce your caloric intake abate implies a reducing of something excessive or oppressive in force or amount.the storm abated dwindle implies progressive lessening and is applied to things growing visibly smaller.their provisions dwindled slowly in the 14th century |