The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABATE , but the solution may also be IRON which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Decrease crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABATE | 19 % | 5 |
| WANE | 14 % | 4 |
| LESSEN | 13 % | 6 |
| IRON | 11 % | 4 |
| LOWER | 8 % | 5 |
| REMIT | 7 % | 5 |
| BATE | 6 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 4 % | 6 |
| EBB | 4 % | 3 |
| DROP | 3 % | 4 |
| PARE | 2 % | 4 |
| PRESS | 2 % | 5 |
| CURTAILMENT | 1 % | 11 |
| FALLOFF | 1 % | 7 |
| DWINDLE | 1 % | 7 |
| GOD | 1 % | 3 |
| GODOWN | 1 % | 6 |
| EATINTO | 1 % | 7 |
| SWING | 1 % | 5 |
| DOWNTURN | 1 % | 8 |
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 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 EBB
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 CURTAILMENT
More clues leading to the result FALLOFF
More clues leading to the result DWINDLE
More clues leading to the result GOD
- "In ___ we trust"
- Bacchus or Boreas
- Deity
- Helios or Horus
- Object of admiration
- Word on a dollar
- Zeus or Ptah
- Word on a penny
- The big guy or gal upstairs
- "FML"
More clues leading to the result GODOWN
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
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