Modify and Reduce

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Modify verb - To limit the meaning of (as a noun).

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Reduce is a synonym for modify in moderate topic. In some cases you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Modify", when it comes to topics like tone down.

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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Modify is a synonym for reduce. Sometimes you can use "Modify" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

power	modify power	reduce power
life	modify life	reduce life
body	modify body	reduce body
value	modify value	reduce value
Other words: number, time, world, difficulty, damage, armor, humans, powers, stats.

Sword of the Stars has several technologies that modify your colonists to reduce the "hazard ratings" of planets, making them easier to colonize.

Source: Genetic Adaptation
And it's been revealed that they actually used a gene therapy plague to modify the entire world population so that they would be immune to any designer plagues but their own and reduce aggression.

Source: No Transhumanism Allowed
He can stretch and modify his own body however he pleases, pull the moon from the sky and reduce it to pokeable size, and the trees of the forest contort to fit the lines of his body in many scenes.

Source: Reality Warper aka: Reality Warping

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