The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PARE , but the solution may also be LESSEN which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Reduce crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PARE | 36 % | 4 |
| LESSEN | 27 % | 6 |
| LOWER | 7 % | 5 |
| ABATE | 7 % | 5 |
| BATE | 4 % | 4 |
| CURTAIL | 3 % | 7 |
| SCALEDOWN | 2 % | 9 |
| SLIM | 2 % | 4 |
| EASE | 2 % | 4 |
| DEPLETE | 1 % | 7 |
| DECREASE | 1 % | 8 |
| ALLEVIATE | 1 % | 9 |
| SHAVE | 1 % | 5 |
| DIMINISH | 1 % | 8 |
| PRUNE | 1 % | 5 |
| CHEAPEN | 1 % | 7 |
| IMPAIR | 1 % | 6 |
| THINDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| PAREDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
| DEMOTE | 1 % | 6 |
| CUT | 1 % | 3 |
Why may LESSEN be the right solution?
The word "reduce" is a synonym for "lessen," which means to make something smaller or decrease it in size or amount. Therefore, "LESSEN" is the right solution for this clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Reduce
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cut back
- scale down
- shrink
- trim
- quash
- keep down
- bring down
- repress
- shorten
- come down
- subdue
- abridge
Crossword Answer definitions
PARE verb- To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
- (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
- To trim the hoof of a horse
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 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 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 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 ABATE
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 CURTAIL
More clues leading to the result SCALEDOWN
More clues leading to the result SLIM
- Actor Pickens
- Narrow of shape
- Pickens, the actor
- Lose it
- Willowy
- Fat free?
- Highly unlikely
- Nigh impossible
- Unlikely
- Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times)
More clues leading to the result EASE
More clues leading to the result DEPLETE
More clues leading to the result DECREASE
More clues leading to the result ALLEVIATE
More clues leading to the result SHAVE
- Pare
- Use a razor
- Tonsorial task
- Lose one's shadow?
- Hairy experience
- Clear the stubble
- Barbershop service
- Get rid of a five o'clock shadow
- Get rid of the Fu Manchu
- Barber's service
More clues leading to the result DIMINISH
More clues leading to the result PRUNE
- Cut back
- Do a gardening job
- Trim a limb
- Do some topiary
- Cut back in the garden
- Trim
- Trim greenery
- Stewed fruit
- Former plum?
- Kind of whip
More clues leading to the result CHEAPEN
- Depreciate
- See 38-Down
- Devalue
- Make tawdry
- Lower in esteem
- Demean
- Degrade
- Debase
- Belittle.
- Reduce price and quality.
More clues leading to the result IMPAIR
- Diminish
- Render dysfunctional
- Do damage to
- Weaken
- Damage
- Make worse
- Injure
- Diminish, as ability
- Hamper
- Get in the way of
More clues leading to the result THINDOWN
More clues leading to the result SLASH
- Virgule
- Incision
- What may follow "com"
- Drastically reduce, as prices
- Not just trim
- Cut drastically
- Guns N' Roses member
- Guitarist with a signature top hat
- Reduce, as prices
- Commit a hockey foul
More clues leading to the result PAREDOWN
More clues leading to the result DEMOTE
- Kick downstairs
- Grade down
- Send down the ladder
- Tear a stripe off
- Lower, as rank
- Take down a peg
- Take down a notch
- Take down a peg
- Reduce in rank
- Take away responsiblity