Translation Japanese English: 縮める

1 abate, abbreviate, abridge, boil down, concentrate, consume, contract, cut, decoct, decrease, deplete, dock, ease off, ease up, eat, eat up, exhaust, flag, foreshorten, lessen, minify, reduce, retrench, run through, scale down, shorten, slack, slacken off, slake, thin, use up, wipe out.

2 abbreviate, abridge, boil down, bring down, come down, concentrate, contract, cut, cut back, cut down, decoct, deoxidise, deoxidize, dilute, foreshorten, keep down, lose weight, melt off, quash, reduce, repress, scale down, shorten, shrink, slenderize, slim, slim down, subdue, subjugate, thin, thin out, tighten, trim, trim back, trim down.

3 abbreviate, abridge, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, contract, cut, expurgate, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.

4 abbreviate, abridge, bring down, burn, contract, curve, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, dilute, disregard, edit, edit out, foreshorten, geld, hack, ignore, issue, make out, prune, rationalise, rationalize, reduce, sheer, shorten, skip, slew, slue, snub, swerve, switch off, tailor, thin, thin out, trend, trim, trim back, trim down, turn off, turn out, veer, write out.

5 abbreviate, abridge, clip, contract, curtail, cut, cut short, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.

6 abbreviate, abridge, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, constrict, contract, cut, foreshorten, get, narrow, press, reduce, shorten, shrink, sign, sign on, sign up, squeeze, take, undertake.

7 abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, get, reduce, run up, shorten, shrink, take.

8 abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, minimise, minimize, reduce, scale down, shorten, shrink, tighten.

9 arrest, block, blockade, bound, capture, catch, check, circumscribe, confine, constrain, contain, control, cumber, curb, dampen, dominate, embarrass, encumber, get, harness, hinder, hold, hold back, hold in, keep, keep back, keep in line, limit, manipulate, master, moderate, muffle, obstruct, reduce, rein, repress, restrain, restrict, rule, smother, stifle, stop, strangle, stymie, stymy, suppress, throttle, tighten, trammel, turn back.

10 back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, contract, foul, shrink.

11 belittle, diminish, dock, reduce, slash, talk down.

12 blue-pencil, compile, compose, cut, delete, edit, edit out, redact.

13 boil down, break off, bring down, cancel, carve, chip, chip at, concentrate, curb, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, delete, knap, pare, plane, reduce, remove, restrict, scale down, shave, tighten, trim, trim back, trim down, whittle.

14 boil down, bring down, concentrate, cut, cut back, cut down, decoct, decrease, lessen, minify, reduce, scale down, tighten, trim, trim back, trim down.

15 boil down, center, centralise, centralize, centre, concentrate, condense, contract, decoct, digest, focus, pore, reduce, rivet.

16 boil down, clip, concentrate, crop, cut back, cut down, dress, lop, mow, prune, reduce, scale down, snip, tighten, trim.

17 boil down, concentrate, conserve, contract, cut, cut short, economise, economize, edit, edit out, husband, reduce, scale down, shrink, tighten, truncate.

18 boil down, concentrate, contract, cut, cut short, edit, edit out, frizzle, reduce, scale down, shorten, shrink, tighten, truncate.

19 boil down, concentrate, draw in, lour, lower, reduce, retract, scale down, tighten.

20 break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, eat up, finish, polish off, shorten, stop.

21 break off, break short, clip, curtail, cut short, truncate.

22 bring down, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, reduce, shorten, trim, trim back, trim down.

23 bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, decrease, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, fall away, fall off, lessen, minify, reduce, scale down, shrink, trim, trim back, trim down.

24 cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, get down, gun down, put off, reduce, topple, tumble.

25 chock up, cram, cut, edit, edit out, fill, jam, jampack, pack, ram, shorten, shove, squeeze, stuff, tamp, tamp down, thrust, wad.

26 come down, decline, decrease, descend, diminish, drop away, drop off, fall, fall away, go down, lessen, reduce, slip, wane.

27 constrain, fasten, reduce, stiffen, tighten, tighten up.

28 consume, contract, decline, decrease, deplete, diminish, eat, eat up, exhaust, fall, go down, lessen, run through, shrink, use up, wane, wipe out.

29 contract, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, fawn, grovel, shrink, shrivel.

30 contract, cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, reduce, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, squinch, wince, wither.

31 crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up.

32 cut, cut off, edit, edit out, except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out.

33 cut away, cut down, cut short, except, exclude, leave off, leave out, mow, omit, take out, truncate.

34 dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, position, reduce.