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
- verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.
attenuate — full definition
- verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.