supistaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• abridge verb To deprive; to cut off.
• cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
• constrict verb To narrow, especially by application of pressure.
• pare verb To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
• reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.

Senses

supistaa is used for these senses in English:

• abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
• cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
• constrict (ambitransitive) To narrow, especially by application of pressure.
• pare (transitive, often, with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
• reduce (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

abridge — full definition

1. verb To deprive; to cut off.
2. verb To debar from.
3. verb To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
4. verb To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.

cancel — full definition

1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
2. verb To make something officially invalid.
3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

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