To support your crossword progress, we’ve assembled these answers for “Reduce” based on completed puzzles where nearly identical clues appeared and were matched with these terms.
Answers:
- LOWER
- SHORTEN
- DECREASE
- DIMINISH
- LESSEN
- PAREDOWN
- EASE
- SHRINK
- CUTDOWN
- DIALBACK
- CUTBACK
- DEPLETE
- CUT
- ABASE
- DROP
- CONDENSE
- IMPAIR
- SCALEBACK
- DOWNSCALE
- PARE
Synonyms and Definitions
LOWER
- Synonyms: abject, blue, bring down, broken, crushed, depleted, depress, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, frown, get down, gloomy, glower, grim, humble, humbled, humiliated, let down, lour, low, low-down, low-pitched, low-spirited, low-toned, lower berth, lowly, miserable, modest, scummy, scurvy, small, take down, turn down
SHORTEN
- Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, contract, cut, expurgate, foreshorten
DECREASE
- Synonyms: decrement, diminish, diminution, drop-off, fall, lessen, lessening, minify, reduction, step-down
DIMINISH
- Synonyms: belittle, decrease
LESSEN
- Synonyms: subside
EASE
- Synonyms: allay, alleviate, comfort, easiness, facilitate, informality, relaxation, relief, relieve, repose, rest, simpleness, simplicity, still
SHRINK
- Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, head-shrinker, psychiatrist, quail, recoil, shrivel, shrivel up, squinch, wince, wither
DEPLETE
- Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
CUT
- Synonyms: baseball swing, burn, cold shoulder, curve, cut back, cut down, cut of meat, cut off, cutting, cutting off, deletion, dilute, disregard, edit, edit out, emasculated, excision, gash, geld, gelded, hack, ignore, issue, make out, mown, prune, rationalise, rationalize, sheer, shorten, shortened, skip, slash, slashed, slew, slice, slue, snub, stinger, swerve, swing, switch off, tailor, thin, thin out, thinned, track, trend, trim, trim back, trim down, trimmed, turn off, turn out, undercut, veer, weakened, write out
ABASE
- Synonyms: chagrin, humiliate, mortify
DROP
- Synonyms: bead, cast, cast off, cliff, dangle, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, dip, discharge, dismiss, drib, dribble, driblet, drip, drop cloth, drop curtain, drop down, drop off, expend, fell, flatten, free fall, knock off, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pearl, pretermit, put down, send away, send packing, set down, shake off, shed, sink, spend, strike down, throw, throw away, throw off, unload
CONDENSE
- Synonyms: concentrate, digest, distil, distill
IMPAIR
- Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate
PARE
- Synonyms: pare down, peel, skin, whittle
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Decrease crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters.
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Inferior crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 letters.
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Lessen crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters.
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Humble crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters.
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Drop crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 letters.
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- LOWER also appears as an answer in Bottom crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 letters.
- SHORTEN also appears as an answer in Cut down crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 letters.