Reduce crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters

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

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