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Search phrase: reduce

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Henry V	H5 V.ii.63	Which to reduce into our former favour	Which to reduce into our former fauour,
King Edward III	E3 II.ii.53	And so reduce him from a scolding drum	And so reduce him from a scoulding drum,
Richard III	R3 II.ii.68	All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,	All Springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
Richard III	R3 V.v.36	That would reduce these bloody days again	That would reduce these bloudy dayes againe,
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK IV.iii.93	may bring her to eat, to sleep, and reduce what's now	may bring her to eate, to sleepe, and reduce what's / Now

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abate	shorten, lessen, reduce
abatement	means remaining, reduced amount [of money]
assubjugate	reduce to subjugation, demean, debase
bate	[of quantities] lessen, reduce, deduct
beggar	reduce to beggary, impoverish, make destitute
boy	represent by a boy, reduce to a boy-actor level [boys played the female parts in Shakespeare's time]
bring	reduce, lower
circumscribe	restrict, reduce, limit
contract	shorten, reduce, lessen
cut	remove, take away, reduce
degrade	lower in rank, reduce in degree
deject	lower, reduce, lessen
disquantity	lessen in quantity, reduce, cut down
dissolve	lose influence, reduce to nothing
distil	melt, reduce, dissolve
do	destroy, consume, reduce to nothing
dull	blunt, reduce the activity of
dumb	make inaudible, reduce to silence
lay	allay, reduce, moderate
mitigate	moderate, reduce the severity of
pinched	tortured, tormented; or: distressed, afflicted; or: reduced to nothing
rack	exhaust by imposing excessive charges, reduce to poverty
reduce	restore, bring back, lead back
ruinate	reduce to ruins, bring to destruction
seethe	reduce by boiling, dissipate by overheating
shorten	reduce, diminish, cut back
slack	reduce to inactivity, quieten down
slack	slacken, reduce, slow down
subdue	get the better of, bring down, reduce
swear	reduce to silence by swearing, put down by swearing
take	reduce, diminish, lessen
third	achieve a third of, reduce to a third
uproar	throw into turmoil, reduce to confusion
warp	reduce, shrink, lessen
weaken	lower, reduce, lessen

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activity, reduce	dull
amount, reduced [of money]	abatement
beggary, reduce to	beggar
boiling, reduce by	seethe
boy-actor level, reduce to a	boy
degree, reduce in	degrade
inactivity, reduce to	slack
nothing, reduce to	dissolve
nothing, reduce to	do
nothing, reduced to	pinched
poverty, reduce to	rack
reduce	abate
reduce	bate
reduce	bring
reduce	contract
reduce	cut
reduce	circumscribe
reduce	take
reduce	weaken
reduce	warp
reduce	distil
reduce	disquantity
reduce	deject
reduce	shorten
reduce	subdue
reduce	slack
reduce	lay
reduce activity	dull
reduce by boiling	seethe
reduce in degree	degrade
reduce the severity of	mitigate
reduce to a third	third
reduce to inactivity	slack
reduce to nothing	do
reduce to nothing	dissolve
reduce to poverty	rack
reduce to subjugation	assubjugate
reduced amount [of money]	abatement
reduced to nothing	pinched
ruins, reduce to	ruinate
severity, reduce the	mitigate
silence, reduce to	dumb
subjugation, reduce to	assubjugate
swearing, reduce to silence by	swear
third, achieve/reduce to a	third

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Archaisms	...the regions round y-slacked reduce to inactivity quieten down per chor...
Elision	...modern english words often appear in a reduced or elided form with the omitted eleme...

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