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

transitive. To put or cast (someone or something) down; to lay (someone) low. Also: to bring (someone) down to a lower rank or position; to degrade…

transitive. To cause to become diminished or decreased; to lessen, reduce.

transitive. To make less, diminish; = lessen, v. 2a. Occasionally with of: to diminish by (a certain amount). Cf. lessing, n. Now colloquial and reg…

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

transitive. To diminish.

To mitigate, alleviate, assuage; to lessen, abate, diminish. archaic.

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

transitive. To reduce in force, intensity, or severity; to dim, weaken; to moderate.

transitive (causatively). To lower in condition; to reduce in degree. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To lessen, diminish; spec. to reduce (a price or value); to lessen the value of (a coin). Now rare.

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

transitive. To impair, diminish, lessen. Obsolete.

transitive. To reduce in size, amount, or quantity; to make smaller.

transitive. To reduce, lessen in force or intensity, diminish (a condition, quality, feeling, activity, etc.); to cause to abate. Obsolete.

transitive. To attenuate, make thin; (also) to reduce. Obsolete.

transitive. To reduce, diminish.

transitive. To diminish.

transitive. To diminish; to belittle.

transitive. To make less in size, quantity, amount, scope, severity, etc.; to diminish.

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 dilute, weaken. Obsolete.

gen. To abate, lessen, diminish (esp. anything swollen). archaic or Obsolete.

transitive. To make less; to rarefy.

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

(under-, prefix1 affix 1a.)

transitive. To lessen, reduce.

transitive. To abate; to beat down, bring down, lower, reduce, lessen, diminish.

transitive. To lower in amount, weight, estimation, to reduce. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause to grow less; to lessen, diminish.

To make small, diminish, lessen.

transitive. To lower, bring down; to lessen. Frequently figurative.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To diminish, take away from. Occasionally intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen or diminish.

transitive. To lessen, diminish, abate (a condition, a quality, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To make less, diminish.

figurative. To weaken or reduce in force, effect, amount; in value, estimation; (obsolete) to extenuate.

To lessen (authority, influence, power, credit), †to lower the value of (something); †to impoverish (an estate).

transitive. ? To rub off or away.

transitive. To make less stringent or oppressive; to lessen the rigour or severity of (a law, policy, etc.).

transitive. To diminish, lessen; to reduce in value or significance.

transitive. To limit or restrict; to make less or smaller; to contract; to reduce.

= diminish, v. (in various senses). In first quot. intransitive to speak disparagingly; cf. diminish, v. 3.

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

transitive. figurative. To decrease or lessen (something).

transitive. To slacken, diminish.

transitive. To lessen in amount or value, depreciate; to debase (metals). Cf. abase, v. 3, debase, v. 3.

To reduce the force or strength of, to weaken, lessen. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen, diminish.

To make less, diminish. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To diminish, reduce, modify (something good); to make less perfect or complete.

figurative. To make smaller, reduce in amount, diminish the extent or scope of; to narrow.

transitive. To bring low; to humble, humiliate; to weaken, enfeeble, deplete; to lower the spirits of, to depress. Cf. pluck, v. 5b.

transitive. To cause to be contracted or shrunk into wrinkles. Often with up.

transitive. To lower in degree or intensity; to reduce the strength of; to diminish, weaken.

transitive. To reverse the augmentation of; to diminish, lessen, reduce.

To reduce or diminish (wealth or a stock of anything). Obsolete.

In immaterial sense: To reduce to smaller limits or compass.

figurative. To diminish, consume, waste. Obsolete.

transitive. = perswage, v.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1b.)

To narrow or restrict in range, scope, or amount.

To lower or bring down in force, vigour, activity, intensity, or amount; to render weaker or less; to render dull or languid.

transitive. Without construction: to lower, diminish, lessen; to make smaller; (also) to limit.

quasi- transitive (in loose const.) Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make less; to diminish, reduce.

transitive. To qualify or diminish (a pleasure, feeling, etc.) by the admixture of something unpleasant; to contaminate or adulterate.

transitive. To decrease the amount of (a tax, a price, a wage, rent, etc.). Also: to reduce the price of (a commodity, product, etc.), or the value…

transitive. To reduce in amount or value; to bring down (a price, value, etc.).

transitive. To diminish, reduce. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and English regional. To strip or make bare by pinching or biting; to remove small portions of, to reduce the amount…

transitive. To cause (a price, rate, quantity, etc.) to decrease; to reduce the amount or value of (something). Cf. to drive up.

transitive. To diminish in significance or importance; to regard or represent (something) as less significant than it really is; to depreciate…

To lower effectively in amount or degree. colloquial.

to damp down (a fire or furnace): to cover or fill it with small coal, ashes, or coke, so as to check combustion and prevent its going out, when…

With down: To reduce in amount according to a fixed scale or standard. Also loosely, to reduce. Also in combinations scale-down attributive. ?…

transitive. To reduce the strength or intensity of (something); to tone down, subdue, moderate.

figurative. To reduce, cut down; spec. of a speed-record or the like (frequently const. off).

transitive. Originally U.S. To reduce, cut back; esp. to reduce (prices) to a previous level. Cf. rollback, n. 2a.

transitive. To reduce or decrease (expenditure, etc.). Also intransitive.

transitive. To reduce (something) in size or scale; to scale (something) down. Also intransitive. Cf. downsize, v.

transitive. To reduce the size, capacity, or functionality of (a device or system), typically for reasons of safety or to reduce operation costs and…

figurative. To reduce in size or extent. Frequently const. down.

transitive. To slow (something) down; to lower or lessen the scope of (something); to attenuate.