Backed and Reduced

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Backed adjective - Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.

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Reduced and backed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reduced" instead a verb "Backed".

Nearby Words: back, backing, backer

Reduced adjective - Made less in size or amount or degree.

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Backed and reduced are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backed" instead a verb "Reduced".

Nearby Words: reduce, reducing, reducible

Once a beautiful world brimming with life, centuries of genocidal war backed by power-crazed sorcerer-kings (whose particular brand of magic functioned by sucking the life out of the land and creatures around them) have reduced it to a scorched desert.

Source: Crapsack World / Tabletop Games
However one protest in Croatia in the 1970s, called the "Croatian Spring" was backed by large numbers of Croats who claimed that Yugoslavia remained a Serb hegemony and demanded that Serbia's powers be reduced.

Source: Useful Notes / Yugoslavia
In a slight reversal, Stanislavski backed off from the "Don't Think, Feel" position later in life, mostly because recalling intense emotions night after night took a heavy toll on his actors and (reportedly) reduced a fair few of them to near nervous wrecks.

Source: Don't Think, Feel

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