Reduce and Sever

Reduce

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.

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Sever and reduce are semantically related. in cut topic. In some cases you can use "Sever" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

Sever verb - To set or force apart.

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Reduce and sever are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Sever".

Nearby Words: severity, severance, severing

world	reduce world	sever world
head	reduce head	sever head

The Consult create him to reduce the world's population to fewer than 144,000 souls, which will sever the world from the Outside forever and save them from damnation.

Source: God of Evil
You can easily sever limbs and heads with little more than a 10mm pistol or a knife (especially in VATS, and especially on a critical hit,) and shotguns and up can cause limbs to explode (even if you aren't aiming for them) or just reduce the target to chunky salsa.

Source: Video Game / Fallout 3

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