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reducingverbpresent participle of reduce to bring to a lower grade or rankwas reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court breaking, busting, degrading, demoting, disrating, downgrading canning, cashiering, dismissing, downsizing, firing, laying off, sackingabasing, debasing, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, lowering advancing, elevating, promoting, raising hiring 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 abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling to diminish the price or value ofa mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade attenuating, breaking, cheapening, depreciating, depressing, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, lowering, marking down, sinking, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping |