| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop1, clip1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop1, pare, prune, shear, slash, trim, truncate. See INCREASE. 2. To become or make less in price or value: cheapen, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, mark down, reduce, write down. See INCREASE, MONEY. 3. To bring oneself down to a lower level of behavior: descend, sink, stoop. See RISE. 4. To cause to descend: depress, drop, let down, take down. See RISE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Below another in standing or importance: inferior, junior, lesser, low, minor, minor-league, petty, secondary, small, subaltern, subordinate, under. Informal : smalltime. See OVER.
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