Drop and Reduce

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Drop verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.

Usage example: with these icy road conditions, drivers should be dropping their speed

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Reduce is a synonym for drop in lower topic. In some cases you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Drop", when it comes to topics like decrease.

Nearby Words: dropped, dropping, droplet, dropout, dropper

Reduce verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.

Usage example: you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement

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Drop is a synonym for reduce in action topic. You can use "Drop" instead a verb "Reduce", if it concerns topics such as lower.

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

amount	drop amount	reduce amount
level	drop level	reduce level
health	drop health	reduce health
weight	drop weight	reduce weight
Other words: target, armor, times, points.

However, if a character speaks to you in red text, your happiness will drop - and the longer their speech, or the more angry they are, the more it will reduce your happiness.

Source: Video Game / Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Furthermore, there exists an ADVENT Dark Event that can reduce the amount of supplies that can be smuggled to XCOM via the drop due to increased security checkpoints.

Source: Video Game / XCOM 2
Anti-Frustration Features: The arcade games reduce the Puyo's drop speed whenever the player uses a continue.

Source: Video Game / Puyo Puyo

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