Main entry: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, foreshorten, shorten
Definition: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Usage: The manuscript must be shortened
Antonyms: lucubrate, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, enlarge, flesh out
Definition: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Main entry: reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin, melt off, lose weight
Definition: take off weight
Main entry: reduce, scale down
Definition: make smaller
Usage: reduce an image
Main entry: reduce, deoxidise, deoxidize
Definition: 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