To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
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To beat down; to overthrow.
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To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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to write or engrave around.
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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…
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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…
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An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
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Compar. of Low, a.
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To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…
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To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…
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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
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Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
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To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
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To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
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To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…
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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…
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