Synonyms of the word

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

abbreviate

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
• v. (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
• adj. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
• adj. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
• n. (obsolete) An abridgment.

abridge

• v. (transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
• v. (transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
• v. (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
• v. (transitive) Cut short; truncate.
• v. (transitive) To curtail.

become

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
• v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
• v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
• v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
• v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

bump

• n. A light blow or jolting collision.
• n. The sound of such a collision.
• n. A protuberance on a level surface.
• n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
• n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
• n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
• n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
• n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
• n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
• n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
• n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
• n. A coarse cotton fabric.
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.
• n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
• v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
• v. To move up or down by a step.
• v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
• v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
• v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
• v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
• v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
• interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

concentrate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
• v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
• v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
• v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
• n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

decoct

• v. (cooking) To make an infusion.
• v. (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

degrade

• v. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
• v. (intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
• v. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

demean

• v. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
• v. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
• v. To mortify.
• v. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
• v. To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
• n. (archaic) Management; treatment.
• n. (archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
• n. demesne.
• n. resources; means.

demote

• v. (transitive) To lower the rank or status of something or someone.
• v. (transitive) To relegate.

deoxidise

• v. Alternative spelling of deoxidize.

deoxidize

• v. (transitive, chemistry) To remove oxygen from.

dilute

• v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
• v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
• v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
• v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
• adj. Having a low concentration.
• adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

diminish

• v. (transitive) To make smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
• v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
• v. (intransitive) To taper.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
• v. To take away; to subtract.

disgrace

• n. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
• n. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
• n. Something which brings dishonor; the cause of shame or reproach; great discredit.
• n. (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
• v. To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

foreshorten

• v. To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
• v. to abridge, reduce, contract.
• v. to make shorter.

impoverish

• v. (transitive) Make poor.
• v. (transitive) Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.
• v. (intransitive) Become poor.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

minify

• v. To make smaller.
• v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
• v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

oppress

• v. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
• v. (transitive) To keep down by force.
• v. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

quash

• v. To defeat forcibly.
• v. To crush or dash to pieces.
• v. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

relegate

• v. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
• v. (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
• v. (transitive) Refer or submit.
• n. (historical, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without…
• adj. (archaic) Relegated; exiled.

replace

• v. (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back.
• v. (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore.
• v. (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
• v. (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
• v. (transitive) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
• v. (transitive, rare) To place again.
• v. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

reposition

• v. To put into a new position.
• n. The act of putting into a new position.

repress

• v. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
• v. Hence, to check; to keep back.
• v. To press again.
• n. A record pressed again; a repressing.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

shorten

• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
• v. (intransitive) To become shorter.
• v. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
• v. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
• v. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
• v. (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

simplify

• v. (transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making…
• v. To become simpler.

slenderize

• v. (transitive) To make more slender.

slim

• adj. Slender, thin.
• adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
• adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
• adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
• n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
• n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
• v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

subjugate

• v. To forcibly impose obedience or servitude.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

tighten

• v. (transitive) To make tighter.
• v. (intransitive) To become tighter.
• v. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
• v. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

trammel

• n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
• n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
• n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
• n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
• n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
• n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
• n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
• n. A beam compass.
• v. To entangle, as in a net.
• v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.