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REDUCTION |
Lessening |
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MITIGATION |
Lessening |
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ABATING |
Lessening |
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EASING |
Lessening |
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DIMINISHING |
Lessening |
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DECREASING |
Lessening |
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DIMINUENT |
Lessening. |
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IMMINUTION |
A lessening; diminution; decrease. |
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DISHONORARY |
Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening
reputation. |
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DEPRECIATION |
The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price,
value, or reputation. |
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COMMINUTION |
Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles
at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. |
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DISHONORABLE |
Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or
deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the
reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. |
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DEROGATION |
The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening
in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of,
from, or to. |
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DIMINUTION |
The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the
state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation;
degradation; abasement. |
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ABRIDGMENT |
The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged;
diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of
pleasures or of expenses. |
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CONICAL |
Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone;
round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference;
as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. |
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ABATEMENT |
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a
lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as,
the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. |
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DETRACTION |
The act of taking away from the reputation or good name
of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the
act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny. |
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EXTENUATION |
...xtenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating;
diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of
p... |
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STASIS |
A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels,
due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some
abnormal resista... |
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FROM |
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity
to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever
departure, sett... |