THIRDING Antonyms

• becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so

• increase by a factor of two

• raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2

• a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages

• living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)

• dividing into four equal parts

• 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

• loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer

• divide by two; divide into halves

• make small or insignificant

• represent as less significant or important

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• make a subtraction

• take off or away