Hide
Hide verb - To put into a hiding place.
Reduce
Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- I always say when you reduce a family tree to a family bush, you just can't hide as much beneath it!
Source: Royal Inbreeding - Not to be confused with Hide Your Lesbians, which refers to the tendency to reduce canon gay relationships to subtext.
Source: Get Back in the Closet -
The women tended to be even more overt in their breaking from reality, with slinky catsuits, sometimes with bare midriffs, often being able to hide very long swords that never seemed to reduce said female's agility before being drawn from... somewhere.
Source: Bag of Holding
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