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reduzieren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • attenuate verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  • diminish verb To make something smaller, weaker, or less important.
  • evaporation noun The process by which a liquid turns into vapor.
  • pruning noun The act of trimming excess branches or growth from a plant.
  • reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
  • tamp verb To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.

Senses

reduzieren is used for these senses in English:

  • abate Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. [15th–19th c.]
  • diminish (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
  • evaporation The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
  • reduce (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
  • tamp (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
  • turn down (idiomatic) To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

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.

attenuate — full definition

  1. verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  2. verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  3. verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
  4. verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.

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