All diffused antonyms

verb diffused

• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• lessen — to become less.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• shrivel — shrink, dry up
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
• take out — the act of taking.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• dislodge — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
• uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
• misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
• misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
• dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.