PLUMPENS Antonyms

• become smaller or lose substance

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• not wide

• lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view

• very limited in degree

• a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water

• limited in extent or scope

• characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• define clearly

• become more focused on an area of activity or field of study

• become tight or as if tight

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• make less complex

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

• be the essential element

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• lessen and make more modest

• make smaller

• to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• narrow or limit

• put down by force or intimidation

• undergo meiosis

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• cook until very little liquid is left

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight

• a physician who specializes in psychiatry

• wither, as with a loss of moisture

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• become smaller or draw together

• decrease in size, range, or extent

• being of delicate or slender build

• small in quantity

• take off weight

• a convex shape that narrows toward a point

• the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

• a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

• stick of wax with a wick in the middle

• diminish gradually

• give a point to

• of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section

• lacking excess flesh

• relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous

• (of sound) lacking resonance or volume

• without viscosity

• very narrow

• not dense

• lacking spirit or sincere effort

• lacking substance or significance

• lose thickness; become thin or thinner

• make thin or thinner

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight