Beat and Reduce

Beat

Beat verb - To strike repeatedly.

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Reduce and beat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Beat".

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

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

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Beat and reduce are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

score	beat score	reduce score
people	beat people	reduce people
men	beat men	reduce men
number	beat number	reduce number
Other words: time, level, head, anyone, opponent, player, enemy, times, enemies, levels.

If you can't beat Shao Kahn on Medium, he'll eventually reduce himself to doing a lot of taunts around the 4th attempt.

Source: Video Game / Mortal Kombat 9
Attacks that don't deal damage and only reduce stats, since the opponent can just swap out or will just continue to beat on you anyway.

Source: Website / Smogon
He's able to effortlessly beat down groups of thugs first in an island based asylum, but in every subsequent game can effectively reduce the conscious criminal population of an entire city to 0...in one night.

Source: One Man Army / Video Games

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