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 |
| ABATE | 7 % | 5 |
| LOWER | 7 % | 5 |
| BATE | 4 % | 4 |
| CURTAIL | 3 % | 7 |
| SLIM | 2 % | 4 |
| EASE | 2 % | 4 |
| SCALEDOWN | 2 % | 9 |
| IMPAIR | 1 % | 6 |
| THINDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| PAREDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
| DEMOTE | 1 % | 6 |
| CUT | 1 % | 3 |
| DEPLETE | 1 % | 7 |
| DECREASE | 1 % | 8 |
| ALLEVIATE | 1 % | 9 |
| SHAVE | 1 % | 5 |
| DIMINISH | 1 % | 8 |
| PRUNE | 1 % | 5 |
| CHEAPEN | 1 % | 7 |
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 ABATE
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 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 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 SCALEDOWN
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
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
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