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Melt :: Melt (v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow..

Alcoholize :: Alcoholize (v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder.

Average :: Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean..

Negative :: Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture..

Depopulate :: Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople..

Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals..

Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate..

Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.

Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg..

Lower :: Lower (a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors..

Vacuum :: Vacuum (n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum..

Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Tough-pitch :: Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

Pulverize :: Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued..

Scorify :: Scorify (v. t.) To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..

Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer..

Generalizable :: Generalizable (a.) Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule..

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