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Deduct :: Deduct (v. t.) To reduce; to diminish.

Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Tough-pitch :: Tough-pitch (n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

Systematist :: Systematist (n.) One who forms a system, or reduces to system..

Neutralize :: Neutralize (v. t.) To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference inefficience; to counteract; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc..

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..

Sand :: Sand (n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet..

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt..

Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

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

Quartation :: Quartation (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting..

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..

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

Set :: Set (v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone..

Disafforest :: Disafforest (v. t.) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

Razee :: Razee (v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate..

Emaciation :: Emaciation (n.) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

Methodize :: Methodize (v. t.) To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts..

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