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Pulverate :: Pulverate (v. t.) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.

Uncanonize :: Uncanonize (v. t.) To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Comminute :: Comminute (v. t.) To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth..

Obtund :: Obtund (v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall..

Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. t.) To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.

Smelt :: Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin..

Char :: Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

Theriaca :: Theriaca (n.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle..

Limekiln :: Limekiln (n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

Beprose :: Beprose (v. t.) To reduce to prose.

Atomization :: Atomization (n.) The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced..

Tared :: Tared (a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates..

Pinus :: Pinus (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine..

Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.

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

Base :: Base (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

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