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snížit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bate verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  • decrease verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
  • lower verb To move something down, or reduce its height, amount, or intensity.
  • mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
  • whittle verb To shape a piece of wood by slicing off small slivers with a knife.

Senses

snížit is used for these senses in English:

  • bate (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  • decrease (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
  • lower (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
  • mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
  • pare down (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
  • whittle (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).

bate — full definition

  1. verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  2. verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. verb To cut off, remove, take away.
  4. verb To leave out, except, bar.

decrease — full definition

  1. verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
  2. noun A reduction in the size or amount of something.

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