Reduce
Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.
Wilt
Wilt verb - To be limp from lack of water or vigor.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In Tom Sharpe's Wilt on High, the hapless security officer at the USAF base in Cambridgeshire (which Henry Wilt manages to reduce to inoperable paralysis) is eventually re-assigned from his plum posting in England to duty in Nome, Alaska.
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