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• interning — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
• detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
• commute — If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
• hogtie — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
• wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• clip — A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
• nutshell — the shell of a nut.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
• bant — string
• cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
• mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
• abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• banted — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
• draw a picture — represent sth visually
• demark — to remove all trace of (a person or thing)
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
• hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• inclose — enclose.
• encapsulate — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
• demarked — demarcate.
• in-tern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• banting — slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
• bring forth — to give birth to
• densified — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
• demarking — demarcate.
• inclosed — enclose.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
• bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
• inventoried — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
• delimitate — delimit.
• boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
• densify — to make or become denser
• iced — of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
• hit the high spots — to stain or mark with spots: The grease spotted my dress.
• cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
• break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
• minify — to make less.
• densifying — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
• decoct — to extract (the essence or active principle) from (a medicinal or similar substance) by boiling
• hem — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.