EMBELLISHMENTS Antonyms

• the temporal property of being cut short

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• a mistake resulting from neglect

• something that has been omitted

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• 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

• the act of reducing complexity

• an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity

• elimination of superfluous details

• the act of reducing complexity

• an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

• the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)

• a retraction of a previously held position

• the act of taking out money or other capital

• the act of withdrawing

• avoiding emotional involvement

• the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.

• the act of ceasing to participate in an activity

• a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation

• formal separation from an alliance or federation

• the termination of drug taking