transitive. To render less crowded or close by removing individuals; hence, to reduce in number. With an assemblage of individuals as object.
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce in quantity or number (11) thinc1440 transitive. To render less crowded or close by removing individuals; hence, to reduce in number. With an assemblage of individuals as object. depopulate1545 To reduce or lessen the number of (people, etc.); to thin. Obsolete. shorten1604 transitive. To make shorter, to diminish the length of, to abridge, curtail. To diminish in number or quantity. Obsolete. disquantity1608 transitive. To lessen in quantity; to diminish. waste1617 To consume, use up, wear away, exhaust, diminish (a thing) by gradual loss; †to reduce in numbers (a family); †to wear out (clothes); †to sell out… dequantitate1646 transitive. To diminish the quantity or amount of. paucify1648 transitive. To make few or fewer; to lessen, diminish. castrate1728 To mutilate, ‘cut down’. Obsolete. shrink1832 transferred. To reduce in number. rare. Subcategories:— to short-list (1) — from seven (1) |
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