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DEFLATE |
Reduce from inflated state |
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DEPLATE |
Reduce from inflated state |
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SORT |
To reduce to order from a confused state. |
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UNWRINKLE |
To reduce from a wrinkled state; to smooth. |
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DECIVILIZE |
To reduce from civilization to a savage state. |
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DEOXIDIZE |
To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an
oxide. |
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SET |
To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace;
as, to set a broken bone. |
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DISAFFOREST |
To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the
state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. |
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TAME |
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and
familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. |
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MELT |
To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to
liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow. |
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RECLAIM |
To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under
discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also
of other animals. |
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ABATE |
To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state,
number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to
cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. |
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CALCINE |
To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the
action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as
carbonic acid from lime... |
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REFINE |
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free
from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
extraneous matter; to purif... |
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DEBASE |
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth,
dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate;
to abase; as,... |
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MODERATE |
To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a
state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make
temperate; to les... |
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EMULSIFY |
To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to
reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat
globules are in a very fin... |
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INTO |
...sily drawn than forced into
compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men
are led by evidence into belief of truth, and ... |