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

abbreviate - shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

simplify - make simpler or easier or reduce in complxity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"

math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

substitute, replace - put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"

demean, disgrace, degrade, take down, put down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

become, turn - undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"

scale down, reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image"

reef - reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef

miniaturise, miniaturize - design or construct on a smaller scale

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

depopulate, desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

contract - make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"

impoverish - make poor

shrink, reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

benficiate - subject to a reduction process; "benficiate ores"

pole - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

limit, throttle, trammel, restrain, confine, bound, restrict - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

crush, oppress, suppress - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

divide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

reposition - place into another position

bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

edit out, edit, cut - cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"

condense, concentrate, digest - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

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

cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"

decrease, diminish, lessen, fall - decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"

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

weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"

water down - make less strong or intense; "water down the mixture"

sweat off - lose weight by sweating; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna"

change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"