Understate: alternatives and connections

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional…

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or…

Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; --…

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instrumen…

Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and…

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

Becoming less and less; diminishing.

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding…

That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including,…

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture…

To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he desc…

A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.

To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words;…

Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing se…

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the…

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehen…

correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction o…