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| VERB | 1 | lessen, decrease, diminish, fall | Decrease in size, extent, or range |
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| 2 | lessen, decrease, minify | Make smaller | |
| 3 | lessen, subside | Wear off or die down |
| Sounds | leh'sahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | Decrease in size, extent, or range. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Synonyms | decrease, diminish, fall |
| Contrary | increase |
| Broader | change magnitude |
| Narrower | break; shrink, shrivel; taper; drop off; vanish, fly, vaporize; break; ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag; weaken; boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate; shrink, contract; shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither; abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away; deflate; dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down; remit; de-escalate; depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue; shorten; thin out; decline, go down, wane; wane; wane; decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard; decrescendo |
| Entailed by | scale down |
| Meaning | Make smaller. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | decrease, minify |
| Contrary | increase |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | mitigate; pare, pare down; limit, circumscribe, confine; reduce, boil down, concentrate; shrink, reduce; abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce; slake, abate, slack; turn down, lower, lour; de-escalate, weaken, step down; minimize, minimise; reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down; cut; slack, slacken, slack up, relax; diminish, belittle |
| Meaning | Wear off or die down. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Synonyms | subside |
| Broader | weaken |
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