Aid and Reduce

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Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Reduce is an antonym for aid.

Nearby Words: aids, aided, aide, aiding, aider

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.

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Aid is an antonym for reduce in defeat topic.

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

humanity	aid humanity	reduce humanity
ability	aid ability	reduce ability
people	aid people	reduce people
resistance	aid resistance	reduce resistance
Other words: anyone, player, enemy, humans.

Darkspeech, for example, can be used to reduce the hardness value of an object, while words of creation can be used to aid in item creation.

Source: Language of Magic
They did a very good job of it, and of supporting the Guomindang's defense of China against Imperial Japan with invaluable medical personnel and aid to reduce the apallingly high number of troop-deaths from wounds and disease.

Source: Chinese Launderer

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