Reduce and Stretch

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Reduce

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.
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Antonyms for Reduce
Stretch is an antonym for reduce in topics: eliminate, decrease.
Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

Stretch

Stretch verb - To make longer.
Usage example: the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered
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Reduce is an antonym for stretch in shrink topic.
Nearby Words: stretched, stretching, stretchy, stretcher
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Common collocations

people reduce people stretch people
body reduce body stretch body
time reduce time stretch time
length reduce length stretch length
Other words: powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Web Video / Tabletop Kingmaker Scenario/ Laser-Guided Karma: In the final stretch of Fortune and Glory, Felicia - who was hopelessly in last place - drew a card that allowed her to reduce the value of any artifact to 1.
    Source: Web Video / Tabletop
  • Reality Warper aka: Reality Warping 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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