Reducing
Reducing noun - Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent.
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Synonyms for Reducing
Sinking and reducing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sinking" instead an adjective "Reducing".
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Related pairs
- decline and reducing
- decline and sinking
- lowering and reducing
- lowering and sinking
- decrease and reducing
- decrease and sinking
- declining and reducing
- declining and sinking
- decreasing and reducing
- decreasing and sinking
- dwindling and reducing
- dwindling and sinking
- abating and reducing
- abating and sinking
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- Cue the Diabolus ex Machina where the sub starts sinking, and the main character's way of reducing the weight.
- Expressed in a fairly verbose fashion in the Assessors' report into the sinking of MV Derbyshire "The use of direct methods of design, utilising in particular finite element analysis, is radically reducing the redundancies which naturally occurred in the prescriptive methods of the past"
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