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- July 25 2023
- Decrease
Decrease
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Decrease crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on July 25 2023 LA Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Decrease has a total of 6 letters.
Definition
| • | To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. |
| • | To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. |
| • | To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. |
| • | To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. |
| • | To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc. |
| • | To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize. |
| • | To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. |
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | REDUCE | Decrease | LA Times |
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