Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

"the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"

exchange, interchange, replace, substitute

lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

"She reduced her niece to a servant"

reduce

is a type of (narrower)

reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

"She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down

be the essential element

"The proposal boils down to a compromise"

boil down, come down, reduce

is derived from

reducible

reduce in size; reduce physically

"Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

reduce, shrink

is derived from

reduction

lessen and make more modest

"reduce one's standard of living"

reduce

is a type of (narrower)

make poor

impoverish

make smaller

"reduce an image"

reduce, scale down

is derived from

reducible

is derived from

reduction

antonym

blow up

to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce

is derived from

reducer

is derived from

reductant

is derived from

reducing

narrow or limit

"reduce the influx of foreigners"

reduce, tighten

put down by force or intimidation

"The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate

undergo meiosis

"The cells reduce"

reduce

is a type of (narrower)

come apart

"The two pieces that we had glued separated"

divide, part, separate

reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

reduce

is a type of (narrower)

place into another position