| VERB | change | encongir, abreujar, contraure, contreure, escurçar | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | encongir, abreujar, escurçar-se, escurçar | make shorter / shorter than originally / originally intended | |
| change | encongir, contraure, contreure, minvar | become smaller or draw together | |
| change | encongir, contraure, contreure | reduce in size | |
| contact | encongir, contraure, contreure | make smaller |
| Sentit | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinònims | abreujar, contraure, contreure, escurçar | |
| Específic | compendiar, comprimir, condensar | make more concise |
| expurgar | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | |
| General | decréixer, disminuir, reduir | make smaller |
| Contrari | ampliar, expandir | add details, as to an account or idea |
| Anglès | abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | |
| Espanyol | abreviar, acortar, compendiar, condensar, contraer, encoger, reducir, resumir, simplificar | |
| Noms | abreujament, abreviació, càpsula, resum | A shortened version of a written work |
| abridger | One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | |
| Sentit | make shorter / shorter than originally / originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinònims | abreujar, escurçar-se, escurçar | |
| Causa de | abreujar, escurçar-se | Become short or shorter |
| Específic | atallar, escurçar, fer drecera, retallar | terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end / end or its full extent |
| atallar, desgastar, escurçar, fer drecera, truncar | make shorter / shorter as if by cutting off | |
| sincopar | omit a sound or letter in a word | |
| General | reduir, retallar, tallar-se, tallar | cut down on |
| Contrari | allargar, prolongar | make longer |
| Anglès | shorten | |
| Espanyol | abreviar, acortar, encoger | |
| Sentit | Become smaller or draw together. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinònims | contraure, contreure, minvar | |
| Causat per | contraure, contreure, encongir | Reduce in size |
| Específic | encorbar, flectir, flexionar | contract |
| General | atenuar, disminuir, esmorteir, minorar, mitigar, rebaixar, reduir, remetre | decrease in size, extent, or range |
| Contrari | allargar, ampliar, desplegar, dilatar, eixamplar-se, escampar-se, estendre, estirar, expandir-se, expandir, perllongar, prolongar-se | Extend in one or more directions |
| allargar-se, donar-se, eixamplar-se, estirar-se | Become longer by being stretched and pulled | |
| Anglès | shrink, contract | |
| Espanyol | achicarse, contraerse, contraer, encogerse, encoger, mermar | |
| Sentit | Reduce in size; reduce physically. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinònims | contraure, contreure | |
| Causa de | contraure, contreure, encongir, minvar | Become smaller or draw together |
| Específic | contraure, contreure, encongir | make smaller |
| despoblar | Reduce in population | |
| miniaturitzar | design or construct on a smaller scale | |
| reduir | make smaller | |
| General | decréixer, disminuir, reduir | make smaller |
| Anglès | shrink, reduce | |
| Espanyol | contraer, encoger, mermar | |
| Noms | decreixement, decreixença, disminució, minvament, reducció | The act of decreasing or reducing something |
| Sentit | make smaller. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinònims | contraure, contreure | |
| Específic | frunzir | Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds |
| General | contraure, contreure, encongir | Reduce in size |
| Anglès | contract | |
| Espanyol | contraer, encoger | |
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