Poorly and Reduced

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Poorly adjective - Temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body.

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Reduced and poorly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reduced" instead an adjective "Poorly".

Nearby Words: poor, poorness

Reduced adjective - Made less in size or amount or degree.

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Poorly and reduced are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Poorly" instead an adjective "Reduced".

Nearby Words: reduce, reducing, reducible

The Rachel Maddow Show: Rachel Maddow was reduced to this in an attempt to respond to a very poorly worded Republican speech, as seen here.

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The end of Gaia Online's poorly-named "Demonbusters" event has the central demigod characters stripped of their powers and reduced to mortality.

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However, that system was rather poorly executed: many players complained at the reduced number of dialogue options, occasioanl mismatch between option description and what Hawke actually says, while such character development led to a lot of WTF?

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