ELABORATING Antonyms

• the act of increasing the density of something

• fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

• act of decreasing in length

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• shorten

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• lessen, diminish, or curtail

• place restrictions on

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent

• give a summary (of)

• be a summary of

• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

• replace a corner by a plane

• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

• make shorter as if by cutting off