Reduce and Waste

Reduce

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

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Waste and reduce are semantically related In some cases you can use "Waste" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

Waste

Waste verb - To use up carelessly.

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Reduce and waste are semantically related in reduction topic. Sometimes you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Waste", if it concerns topics such as ruin.

Nearby Words: wasted, wasting, wasteful, wastage, wastefulness

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Common collocations

power	reduce power	waste power
life	reduce life	waste life
attack	reduce attack	waste attack
men	reduce men	waste men
Other words: amount, chance, time, world, planet, points, attacks.

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The first boss has the ability to reduce all your gears to 1 HP instantly, forcing you to waste fuel healing, and is followed by one of the HARDEST bosses in the game, with no chance to recover.

Source: Sequential Boss
Knight of Cerebus: Madame Suliman who manages to reduce the Witch of the Waste into an old woman and tries to impale Howl and Sophie.

Source: Anime / Howl's Moving Castle
MOTHER 3 has an item called the "Made-Ya-Look." It causes the enemy to turn around, exposing their back to reduce their defence and making them waste a turn to face you again (except for Mecha-turtles).

Source: Look Behind You / Video Games

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