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Synonyms for reduce
Synonyms for reduce: cut, tighten and shrink. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for reduce
Interchangeable with reduce, one per sense
Audited under reduce's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one reduce carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name reduce as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- shrinkshrink is a verb in the sense "reduce in size"
The first group is filed under reduce's own senses. The second reaches reduce from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
cut down on
Reduce your daily fat intake.
The true synonym
cut
Same sentence, swapped: Cut your daily fat intake.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- suppress
- concentrate
- minimise
narrow or limit
The council voted to reduce access to the private beach.
The true synonym
tighten
Same sentence, swapped: The council voted to tighten access to the private beach.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- slim
- shrink
- restrain
Where reduce turns up in the game
reduce is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where reduce is the trap
- amountverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is come, in the sense "to measure up to in kind or quality", and reduce is one of the three tiles that lose.
- restrainverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is keep, in the sense "prevent the action or expression of", and reduce is one of the three tiles that lose.
- segmentverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is section, in the sense "divide into segments", so reduce is there to be ruled out.
- tightenverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fasten, in the sense "make tight or tighter", with reduce sitting one tile away.
Play reduce
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reduce reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from change at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
reduce is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.