Rhymes for ABBREVIATING

• tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value

• extremely painful

• provide physical relief, as from pain

• make easier

• a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

• markedly different from an accepted norm

• turn aside; turn away from

• be at variance with; be out of line with

• cause to turn away from a previous or expected course

• acting through or dependent on an intervening agency

• being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

• act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

• occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others

• causing awareness of your shortcomings

• capable of winning favor

• calculated to please or gain favor

• give an education to

• create by training and teaching

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• taking part in an activity

• serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction

• impairing the strength and vitality

• most powerful or important or influential

• used of a height or viewpoint

• offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

• give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

• open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building

• inscribe or address by way of compliment

• set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church

• assume or act the character of

• represent another person with comic intentions

• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

• made impossible

• a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise

• any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another

• a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

• having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status

• make a logical or causal connection

• keep company with; hang out with

• bring or come into association or action

• someone new to a field or activity

• someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

• people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

• bring into being

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite

• bring up a topic for discussion

• set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for

• a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored

• send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees

• admit back into the country

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• capable of arousing and holding the attention

• capturing interest as if by a spell

• the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• involved in a kind of operation

• being in effect or operation

• serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause

• any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis

• coat with metal by electrolysis

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

• do something to an excessive degree

• authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions

• kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

• kill in large numbers

• cause to burst with a violent release of energy

• burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction

• to cause to separate and go in different directions

• move away from each other

• spend frivolously and unwisely

• live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption

• the product of percolation

• permeate or penetrate gradually

• spread gradually

• prepare in a percolator

• cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent

• pass through

• gain or regain energy

• cause to continue or prevail

• help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute

• reinstall politically

• restore to a state of good condition or operation

• tending to deprive of oxygen

• the act of umpiring

• suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

• meant or adapted for an occasion or use

• give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

• express or state clearly

• a chronic drinker

• fill with sublime emotion

• make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

• become drunk or drink excessively

• take revenge for a perceived wrong

• make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil

• causing or able to cause nausea

• fill, as with a certain quality

• infuse or fill completely

• fertilize and cause to grow

• make pregnant

• mark as different

• be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense

• calculate a derivative; take the derivative

• become different during development

• evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment

• become distinct and acquire a different character

• negociate anew

• revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor

• helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation

• obliging; willing to do favors

• the activity of causing to have energy and be active

• causing motion or action or change

• making worse

• acting with a specific goal

• capturing interest as if by a spell