transitive. To make thin; to reduce in thickness or depth; to spread or draw out in a thin layer or thread. to thin off, down: to diminish…

transitive. To make narrower; to reduce the breadth of. In early use occasionally figurative or in figurative context: †to constrict, constrain…

transitive. To make thin or small; to lessen, reduce. Also with down.

To make smaller or less in amount or size; to reduce, diminish, lessen. Obsolete.

transitive. To make less or smaller; to reduce in magnitude or degree; = diminish, v. 1a.

transitive. To diminish; to reduce in number, amount, or degree; to reduce in power, influence, etc.

transitive. To bring or draw together, to contract; to confine. Also reflexive.

To make (or cause to appear) less or smaller; to lessen; to reduce in magnitude or degree. (The opposite of enlarge, increase, augment, magnify.)

transitive. To make little or more little, to diminish; to reduce in size, amount, or importance; (also) to belittle. Also with †away.

To diminish in size, number, or amount; to reduce to meagre dimensions. Obsolete.

transitive. To make strait or narrow; to curtail (property).

To make scant or small; to diminish, cut down, curtail; to limit, restrict.

To make scant or small; to reduce in size, cut down; to diminish the amount of. ? Obsolete.

transitive. In intensive use: = dwarf, v.

To reduce to a smaller scale. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative. To render (a thing) small, weak, or inferior in extent, nature, character, etc.; to restrict or reverse the development…

transitive. To reduce in size; to shorten. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative.

transitive. To reduce the size or extent of; esp. to alter (a garment) so as to make it fit more closely.

transitive. To reduce in size, make small.

transitive. To render (a thing) small, weak, or inferior in extent, nature, character, etc.; to restrict or reverse the development of. Cf. dwarf, v.…

transitive. To bring down or diminish in size, number, amount, or degree; = reduce, v. 2.

transitive. To make small; to render insignificant; to play down.

figurative. To cut short, curtail, diminish.

transitive. gen. To reduce the size or scale of (something).