Multiply and Reduce

Multiply

Multiply verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.
Usage example: the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors

Reduce is an antonym for multiply in topics: increase, decrease.

Reduce

Reduce verb - To diminish the price or value of.
Usage example: a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade

Multiply is an antonym for reduce in eliminate topic.

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

Common collocations

ability multiply ability reduce ability
power multiply power reduce power
strength multiply strength reduce strength
score multiply score reduce score
Other words: value, amount, number, rate, effect, time, speed, health, effects, weight, output, effectiveness, damage, pain, target, times, numbers, rates, points, stats.

Both words in one sentence

  • Activating an enchantment to reduce his mass and multiply his speed.
  • Video Game / Homeworld Beam Spam: Masses of ion frigates, and especially Cataclysm's Multi-Beam Frigates: take a cannon that normally has a whole ship built around it, reduce its power a little bit... and multiply the number of firing points (that can fire simultaneously) by five.
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