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vähentää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • decrease verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
  • deduct verb To subtract or take away an amount from a total.
  • derogate verb To partially repeal (a law etc.).
  • detract verb To take away; to withdraw or remove.
  • dock noun A structure at a harbour where ships load, unload, or are repaired.
  • rebate noun A partial refund given after a purchase or payment.
  • reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
  • remit verb To send money, especially as a payment.
  • subtract verb To take one number or amount away from another.

Senses

vähentää is used for these senses in English:

  • abate To reduce (something) in amount or size. [from 14th c.]
  • abate Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. [15th–19th c.]
  • cut down (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
  • decrease (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
  • deduct To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
  • derogate (ambitransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened. [from 16th c.]
  • detract (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
  • dial down (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce or diminish in effect or intensity.

abate — full definition

  1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.

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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