shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"

quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance

cut - have a reducing effect; "This cuts into my earnings"

retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"

slash - cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"

thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants"

thin - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"

minify, decrease, lessen - make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"

deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"

inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

knock off, shave - cut the price of

cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

submarine - bring down with a blow to the legs

strike - deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"

baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"

hold back, arrest, turn back, contain, stop, check - hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"

scythe - cut with a scythe; "scythe grass or grain"

cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

chop down - cut down; "George chopped down the cherry tree"

poleax, poleaxe - fell with or as if with a poleax

log, lumber - cut lumber, as in woods and forests

cut - fell by sawing; hew; "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia"

cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

downed, felled - made to fall (as by striking or cutting or shooting or by illness or exhaustion); "the felled boxer lay stretched on the canvas"; "felled trees covered the hillside"; "the downed oxen lay panting in the heat"; "a downed deer"