supistaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abridge verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- constrict verb To become narrower, usually because pressure is put on it.
- pare verb To cut away the outer skin or covering of something, usually with 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
- verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
- verb To stop someone from having or doing something.
- verb To make something shorter in length or time.
- verb To make a piece of writing shorter while keeping its main meaning.
cancel — full definition
- verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- verb To make something officially invalid.
- verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
- verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behavior.
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