| Sentido | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | abreviar, acortar, compendiar, condensar, contraer, encoger, resumir, simplificar | |
| Específico | compendiar, comprimir, condensar | make more concise |
| expurgar | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | |
| General | decrecer, disminuir, menguar, mermar, reducir | make smaller |
| Contrario | ampliar, dilatarse, expandir, explicar, exponer, extenderse | add details, as to an account or idea |
| Inglés | abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | |
| Catalán | abreujar, contraure, contreure, encongir, escurçar | |
| Nombres | abreviación, abreviatura, cápsula, compendio, condensación, reducción, resumen | A shortened version of a written work |
| abreviador, abridger, compendiador | One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | |
| acortador | Any agent that shortens | |
| Sentido | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | aclarar, cortar, desleír, diluir | |
| Específico | aguar | make less strong or intense |
| General | ablandar, atenuar, debilitar, flaquear, reblandecer | lessen the strength of |
| Inglés | dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut | |
| Catalán | diluir | |
| Nombres | atenuación, dilución | weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner |
| dilución | A diluted solution | |
| diluente, diluyente, disolvente | A diluting agent | |
| Sentido | Move or stir about violently. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | acuchillar, agitar, convelerse, dar vueltas, moverse agitadamente, sacudirse, sacudir, trillar, vapulear | |
| Específico | restallar | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash |
| General | agitar, batir, sacudirse, sacudir, temblar | Move or cause to move back and forth |
| Inglés | convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate | |
| Catalán | convulsar, crispar, remenar | |
| Nombres | pataleo | A swimming kick used while treading water |
| Sentido | make less active / active / active or intense. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | aflojar, amainar, disminuir, mitigar | |
| General | decrecer, disminuir, menguar, mermar, reducir | make smaller |
| Inglés | slake, abate, slack | |
| Catalán | amainar, amansir, asserenar, debilitar, defallir, disminuir, mitigar, reduir | |
| Nombres | bajón, caída | A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality |
| Sentido | Take off weight. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | adelgazarse, adelgazar, bajar peso, enflaquecer, perder peso, rebajar | |
| Específico | adelgazar sudando | lose weight by sweating |
| General | convertirse, girar, rotar, transformarse | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
| Contrario | engordar, engrosar, engruesar, ganar | increase (one's body weight) |
| Inglés | reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down | |
| Catalán | aflaquir-se, amagrir-se, aprimar-se | |
| Sentido | Be cooked until very little liquid / liquid is left. | |
|---|---|---|
| Categoría | cocción, cocina | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
| General | consumirse, desmoronarse, disminuir, menguar, mermar, reducirse | decrease in size, extent, or range |
| Inglés | boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
| Nombres | concentración | strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material |
| concentración | increase / increase / increase in density / density | |
| concentrado | A concentrated form of a foodstuff | |
| Sentido | lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | abatir, rebajar | |
| General | degradarse, degradar, deshonrarse, deshonrar, envilecer | Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally |
| Inglés | reduce | |
| Catalán | abaixar, rebaixar | |
| Sentido | simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another. | |
|---|---|---|
| Categoría | ciencias exactas, matemática, matemáticas, matemático, mates | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
| General | canjear, intercambiar, reemplazar, substituir, suplir, sustituir | put in the place of another |
| Inglés | reduce | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
| Adjetivo | reducible, reductible | capable of being reduced |
| Sentido | make thin or thinner. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | adelgazarse, adelgazar, enflaquecer | |
| Causa de | adelgazarse, adelgazar, enflaquecerse, enflaquecer | Lose thickness |
| General | bajar, cortar, rebajar, recortar, reducir | cut down on |
| Contrario | coagular, condensar, densificar, engrosar, engruesar, espesar | make thick or thicker |
| Inglés | thin | |
| Catalán | aflaquir-se, aflaquir, amagrir-se, aprimar-se, aprimar, fer prim, reduir | |
| Nombres | diluente, diluyente, disolvente | A diluting agent |
| Sentido | define clearly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | clavar, especificar, identificar exactamente | |
| Específico | concretar, precisar | make something concrete |
| General | determinar | Fix in scope |
| También | clavar, enclavar | attach something somewhere by means of nails |
| estacar | Fasten or secure with a wooden pin | |
| Inglés | pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify | |
| Catalán | especificar | |
| Nombres | especificador | someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent / patent) |
| Sentido | make a reduction, as in one's workforce. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | bajar, cortar, rebajar, recortar, reducir | cut down on |
| Inglés | retrench | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
| Nombres | ahorro, racionalización de gastos, reducción, restricción | The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable |
| Sentido | deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | descontar, rebajar | |
| General | privar | Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining |
| Inglés | dock | |
| Catalán | disminuir, rebaixar | |
| Sentido | make smaller. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | disminuir | |
| General | contraer, encoger, mermar | Reduce in size |
| Contrario | agrandar, ampliar, aumentar, engrandecer | make large |
| Inglés | reduce, scale down | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
| Adjetivo | reducible, reductible | capable of being reduced |
| Nombres | debilitamiento, disminución, merma, reducción | The act of decreasing or reducing something |
| Sentido | lessen and make more modest. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | empobrecer | make poor |
| Inglés | reduce | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
| Sentido | cut drastically. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | rebajar, tasajear | |
| General | bajar, cortar, rebajar, recortar, reducir | cut down on |
| Inglés | slash | |
| Catalán | rebaixar, retallar | |
| Sentido | Become less intense. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | consumirse, desmoronarse, disminuir, menguar, mermar, reducirse | decrease in size, extent, or range |
| También | aflojarse, aflojar, soltarse | Become looser or slack |
| Inglés | ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag | |
| Catalán | reduir | |
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