The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABATE , but the solution may also be REDUCE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
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Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABATE | 20 % | 5 |
| WANE | 13 % | 4 |
| LESSEN | 13 % | 6 |
| IRON | 11 % | 4 |
| LOWER | 8 % | 5 |
| REMIT | 7 % | 5 |
| BATE | 6 % | 4 |
| EBB | 4 % | 3 |
| REDUCE | 4 % | 6 |
| DROP | 3 % | 4 |
| PARE | 2 % | 4 |
| PRESS | 2 % | 5 |
| GODOWN | 1 % | 6 |
| CURTAILMENT | 1 % | 11 |
| SWING | 1 % | 5 |
| EATINTO | 1 % | 7 |
| FALLOFF | 1 % | 7 |
| DOWNTURN | 1 % | 8 |
| DWINDLE | 1 % | 7 |
| GOD | 1 % | 3 |
Why may REDUCE be the right solution?
The answer "REDUCE" is the right solution because it means to make something smaller or decrease in size, quantity, or intensity.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Decrease
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- decrement
- step-down
- diminution
- diminish
- lessen
- lessening
- fall
- reduction
- drop-off
- minify
- diminishing
- dwindle
Crossword Answer definitions
ABATE noun- Abatement.
- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABATE
More clues leading to the result WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Wax's counterpart
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
More clues leading to the result LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up
More clues leading to the result IRON
- "The Man in the ___ Mask"
- Board appliance
- Curtain material, once?
- Hard rock group ___ Maiden
- Lonesome household appliance
- Mangle
- Press
- Spiff up the shirts
- Woods choice
- Word with curling or shooting
More clues leading to the result LOWER
- Decrease
- Devaluate
- Remove, as artwork
- Request from one getting a backrub
- Put down
- Mark down in price
- Reduce
- Bring down
- Bunk option
- Not as high
More clues leading to the result REMIT
More clues leading to the result BATE
- Ease
- Restrain
- Subside
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Lessen
- Moderate
- Make less intense
- Hold back, as breath
- Lessen in intensity
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result REDUCE
- Minimize
- Cut down to size
- Knock off
- Slim down
- Boil down
- Discount
- Be a good loser?
- Diet
- Turn down
- Lower in degree
More clues leading to the result DROP
- What you wait for the other shoe to do
- Cease to consider
- Discontinue
- Let fall
- Night deposit
- Knock down
- Pine Bros. unit
- __ leaf table
- Plummet
- Stop doing
More clues leading to the result PARE
- Cut (down), as expenses
- Get the carrots ready
- Cut back
- Trim
- Whittle down
- Fix apples for a pie
- Skin
- Trim down
- Remove the skin of
- Cut the skin from
More clues leading to the result PRESS
- Fourth estate
- Iron-pumper's rep
- "Meet the ____"
- Get the crease out
- Iron
- A medium
- Get pushy
- Basketball stratagem
- Bench exercise
- Apply force to
More clues leading to the result GODOWN
More clues leading to the result CURTAILMENT
More clues leading to the result SWING
- Genre for Benny and Artie
- Music category
- Move on a hinge
- Big Band style
- With 77-Down, 1935-45 in music
- Playground fixture
- Benny Goodman's genre
- Goodman's musical style
- Louis Armstrong's music
- Take a cut
More clues leading to the result EATINTO
- Chip away at
- Erode
- Deplete
- Erode gradually, as one's savings
- Consume, as profits
- Gradually deplete
- Corrode
- Compromise, as savings
- Deplete, as profits
- Deplete, as savings