Exact Match:
- reducing
- loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- diminishing
collapse - becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so; "diminishing returns"; "his diminishing respect for her" related words >
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- assuaging,
- blunting,
- chastening,
- contractive,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- diminuendo,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- easing,
- ebbing,
- fading,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- mitigating,
- on the wane,
- receding,
- reducing,
- reductive,
- relaxing,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- shrinking,
- sinking,
- softening,
- subduing,
- subsiding,
- tempering,
- waning
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- diminishing,
- easing,
- emollient,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- narcotic,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- reducing,
- relaxing,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stunning,
- stupefying,
- subduing,
- tempering
- relaxing
collapse
- affording or marked by rest or repose; "the time spent was pleasant and relaxing"; "a restful night"; "a cool and reposeful glen" related words >
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- assuaging,
- blunting,
- chastening,
- comfortable,
- comfy,
- commodious,
- contented,
- convenient,
- cozy,
- cushioned,
- cushioning,
- cushiony,
- cushy,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- diminishing,
- dulling,
- easeful,
- easing,
- easy,
- emollient,
- friendly,
- homelike,
- homely,
- homey,
- lessening,
- lived-in,
- loosening,
- luxurious,
- mitigating,
- mollifying,
- peaceful,
- reducing,
- reposeful,
- restful,
- roomy,
- snug,
- soft,
- softening,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- warm
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- bounding,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- diminishing,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- excusatory,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- justifying,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- reducing,
- relaxing,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- vindicating
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- debilitation,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- emollient,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- narcotic,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- salving,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stunning,
- stupefying,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- weakening
- Cadmean victory,
- KO,
- Pyrrhic victory,
- Waterloo,
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- ascendancy,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- beating,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- cathartic,
- championship,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- collapse,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- crash,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- defeat,
- demulcent,
- destruction,
- diminishing,
- downfall,
- drubbing,
- dulling,
- easing,
- easy victory,
- emollient,
- failure,
- fall,
- grand slam,
- hiding,
- knockout,
- lambasting,
- landslide,
- landslide victory,
- lathering,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- licking,
- loosening,
- mastery,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mollifying,
- moral victory,
- numbing,
- overcoming,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- picnic,
- purgative,
- pushover,
- quietus,
- reducing,
- relaxing,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- ruin,
- runaway victory,
- smash,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subdual,
- subjugation,
- success,
- tempering,
- thrashing,
- total victory,
- trimming,
- triumph,
- trouncing,
- undoing,
- vanquishment,
- victory,
- walkaway,
- walkover,
- whipping,
- win,
- winning,
- winning streak
- easing
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- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- a change for the better related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- clarification,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- disburdening,
- disencumbering,
- disencumberment,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- emollient,
- expediting,
- expedition,
- facilitation,
- falling-off,
- hastening,
- hushing,
- laxation,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- padding,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- quickening,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- salving,
- simplification,
- simplifying,
- slackening,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- softening-up,
- soothing,
- speeding,
- streamlining,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- unballasting,
- unburdening,
- unfreighting,
- unlading,
- unloading,
- unsaddling,
- untaxing
- abatement,
- abating,
- abridgment,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- calming,
- chastening,
- contraction,
- contractive,
- curtailment,
- cushioning,
- cut,
- cutting,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- declining,
- decrease,
- decreasing,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- deliquescent,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disparagement,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- hushing,
- impairment,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- numbing,
- on the wane,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- reductive,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- remedy,
- remission,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- sagging,
- salving,
- scaling down,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- subsiding,
- subtraction,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truncation,
- waning,
- weakening
- softening
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- the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat" related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- allowance,
- altering,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- bounding,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- color,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decontamination,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- emollient,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuating,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
- extenuatory,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- gilding,
- gloss,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- languishment,
- laxation,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- modulatory,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- padding,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualification,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- salving,
- slackening,
- softening-up,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- varnish,
- weakening,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing
- tempering
collapse
- moderating by making more temperate related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- ability,
- aging,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- arteriosclerosis,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- atherosclerosis,
- background,
- blaseness,
- blunting,
- calcification,
- callusing,
- calming,
- capability,
- case hardening,
- chastening,
- chisel temper,
- competence,
- competency,
- concretion,
- condition,
- cornification,
- crystallization,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dash,
- deadening,
- demulsion,
- development,
- die temper,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- experience,
- falling-off,
- firming,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- fortification,
- fossilization,
- granulation,
- hardening,
- hardness scale,
- heat treating,
- hint,
- hornification,
- hushing,
- indenter,
- induration,
- infusion,
- inkling,
- intimation,
- invigoration,
- lapidification,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- lithification,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mastery,
- maturation,
- maturescence,
- maturity,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- ossification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- past experience,
- petrifaction,
- petrification,
- practical knowledge,
- practice,
- precipitation hardening,
- preparedness,
- proficiency,
- qualification,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- razor temper,
- readiness,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- refreshment,
- reinforcement,
- reinvigoration,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- remission,
- restrengthening,
- revivification,
- ripeness,
- ripening,
- sagacity,
- sauce,
- saw file temper,
- sclerosis,
- seasoning,
- senescence,
- set temper,
- setting,
- shade,
- slackening,
- smack,
- softening,
- solidification,
- soothing,
- sophistication,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- spindle temper,
- sprinkling,
- steeling,
- stiffening,
- strengthening,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- suggestion,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- suitedness,
- suspicion,
- taint,
- temper,
- thought,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tool temper,
- touch,
- toughening,
- trace,
- tranquilization,
- trim,
- vestige,
- vitrifaction,
- vitrification,
- worldly wisdom
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