Decrease and Lop

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Cut off from a whole.
  • usage: "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
  • synonyms: discerp, sever
• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • synonyms: snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back

• (n.) A flea.
• (v.t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
• (n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
• (v.i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
• (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
• (v.t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
• (v.t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.