Reducing

Definitions: Reducing

Reducing

Noun

1. Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent.

2. Loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing".

Date "reducing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Reducing

Synonym: reduction (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Reducing

English words defined with "reducing": Reducing furnace. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reducing": Acreage Reduction Program, adaptation luminance, adaptive sort, Adenovirus E3 Proteins, Alcohol Dehydrogenase, alendronate sodium, anchor-chain clearing, Anesthetics, Local, antiangiogenic, antimetastatic, Antithyroid Agents, Aromatase, arsenious acid, arsenious oxide, as low as reasonably achievable, As2O3, assay plan factor, automatic noise limiter ♦ backoff, back-off, Baffle Chamber, balanced hoisting, bath attendant, bath-house attendant, Beien kep gear, Belgian process, Benserazide, Berglof process, Best Management Practice, Best management practices, biconcave lens, black shale, Blake jaw crusher, blast hearth, Blondel-Rey effect, blooming mill, blue gold, broadcast quality video, Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco And Firearms, bus boarder ♦ CABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, call protection, car retarder, Carbidopa, Carbon sequestration, carburizing flame, chemically precipitated metal powder, chugging, Citalopram, Coal coke, coalesced copper, Co-control benefit, cold-drawing, combinatory logic, compressed-air-driven lamps, concentration processes, cone crusher, Conservation tillage, constructed wetland, Controlled Atmosphere, copper segregation process, Cue avoidance, curb build-out ♦ Dairy Diversion Program, delivery drift, Desulfovibrio, disability glare, Diskectomy, Percutaneous, Dithiothreitol, dollar cost averaging, double metaphone, double-concave lens, double-roll breaker, Draught of Thor, dry grinding ♦ Eflornithine, electronic counter counter measures, Ellipsoidal Reflector Lamp, ENERGY-CONSERVATION REPRESENTATIVE, Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance, explosion-hazard investigation, extender pigment ♦ Felodipine, ferro-titanium, finisher, screwdown, flame inhibitor, flanking hole method, Flood Loss Reduction Measures, Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program, foam injection, folded optics, Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, frost fog, frother, frozen fog ♦ Gas Scavengers, GAS-MAIN FITTER, Gayley process, GENERAL CAR SUPERVISOR, YARD, general-crusher foreman. (references)

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Modern Usage: Reducing

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Reducing (1952)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reducing

Domain	Title
Books	Essential Managers: Reducing Stress (reference) Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities (reference) Natural Relief for Your Child's Asthma: A Guide to Controlling Symptoms & Reducing Your Child's Dependence on Drugs (reference) Stop Your Cravings: A Balanced Approach to Burning Fat, Increasing Energy, and Reducing Stress (reference) Why Government Doesn't Work; How Reducing Government Will Bring Us Safer Cities Better Schools (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Wealth Mastery Series Volume 6 - Reducing Your Taxes (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Reduce by Reducing (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Monster Cable ISM 201 XLN Silencer In-Line Module Balanced Noise Reducing Network Silencer Module (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Hitachi C7YAK 7-1/4" Dust Reducing Circular Saw (reference) Rain Bird 700CF5-2PK Reducing Couplings (2-Pack) (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Reducing

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictured is a proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Top view of proton beams entering head. Bright pink area is tumor. Beams are focused only in this area reducing harm to surrounding tissue.Credit: unknown photographer.		Dam built as part of the road in southern Iowa curbs gully erosion, improves water quality, and saves county funds by reducing maintenance costs of culverts. The dam is called a 'road structure' by NRCS, which helps design such structures.Credit: Lynn Betts.
	A constructed wetland improves water quality by reducing sediment, nutrients and pesticides in runoff.Credit: Martin Pena.		This livestock crossing was installed to offer a stable point for livestock to cross a stream. This low cost engineering practice is an efficient method of reducing bank erosion. Livestock crossings are part of a system promoting rotational grazing.Credit: Don Poggensee.
	"Trenton dragging along the reefs" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows USS Trenton during the height of the storm, with her anchors dragging as she is pushed deeper into Apia Harbor. Note that she is shown with steam up. Water entering through her low hause pipes (visible at her bow) ultimately put out her fires, greatly reducing her ability to survive the wind and waves.Credit: NAVY.		Production. Copper. Part of a group of five Symons short-head cone crushers for reducing the coarse copper ore to a smaller size at the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company where vast quantities of copper ore are treated.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Reducing

Author	Quotation
Napoleon Bonaparte	When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Reducing

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Society, the state, in reducing his savings, had robbed him by wholesale.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reducing

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They work by reducing inflammatory responses in tissues. (references)
		They are very effective in reducing vision loss from this disease. (references)
		They are particularly helpful in reducing drug-induced parkinsonism. (references)
Business		EGAT's DSM program has succeeded in reducing energy consumption and thus CO2 emission level. (references)
		The energy efficiency programs have worked better than originally anticipated in reducing demand. (references)
		With SOx emissions generally under control, the TEPA has turned it's attention to reducing NOx emissions. (references)
Children	Algeria	Such NGO's have educational programs aimed at reducing the level of violence, but lack funding. (references)
	Malaysia	Recognizing that public transportation is not disabled-friendly, the Government is reducing the excise duty for persons with disabilities on locally made cars and motorcycles by 50 percent. (references)
	Iceland	The city is spending approximately $175,000 (17.5 million krona) a year on this project, which it aims to have completed by 2006. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the extent to which the State was reducing social security payments to persons with disabilities based on the income of their able-bodied spouses was unconstitutional. (references)
Civil Liberties	Croatia	Internal management reforms continued to be slow, primarily due to difficulties in reducing the bloated workforce. (references)
	Azerbaijan	Many IDP's complained of 10 percent "processing fees" by local officials, further reducing their already meager resources. (references)
	Thailand	Since then more than 1,900 have been resettled in 9 countries, reducing the current registered refugee population to fewer than 100 persons. (references)
Economic History	Sweden	The party's key challenge today is reducing high unemployment. (references)
	Taiwan	Taiwan has been reducing the public sector's role in the economy. (references)
	Belgium	The aim is to generate more outlays for new equipment by reducing staff. (references)
Human Rights	Jamaica	A night court has had some success in reducing the backlog of cases. (references)
	Honduras	A 1998 Supreme Court instruction holds judges personally accountable for reducing the number of backlogged cases. (references)
	Trinidad and Tobago	The High Court showed improvement in reducing trial backlogs, but they remained significant at the magistrate court level. (references)
Indigenous People	Honduras	Expanded coverage of the national cadastral registry, property titling, and government land registries is reducing this vulnerability. (references)
Minorities	Argentina	Since its implementation, this measure reportedly has had considerable success in reducing discriminatory acts and behavior at soccer matches. (references)
	Nepal	Better education and higher levels of prosperity, especially in the Kathmandu Valley, slowly are reducing caste distinctions and increasing opportunities for lower socioeconomic groups. (references)
Political Economy	ITALY	Privatization is reducing the government's role in the economy. (references)
	BRAZIL	The plan was highly successful in reducing longstanding inflation. (references)
	CHILE	Chile has also succeeded in improving living standards and reducing poverty during that time. (references)
Political Rights	Jordan	Opponents of the measure claim that the consolidations are an attempt to undermine the strength of Islamist parties in local government, and that it will weaken the democratic process at the municipal level by reducing the number of locally elected officials. (references)
	Jamaica	These problems persisted in the December 1997 election, despite the best efforts of the security forces, which were credited with controlling violence such as the beating of voters, and reducing election malpractice such as the theft of ballot boxes from polling places. (references)
Trade	Nigeria	Observers note little success to date in reducing red tape and corruption. (references)
Women	China	Lower retirement ages have the effect of reducing pensions, which generally are based on years worked. (references)
	Guyana	In March 2000, the U.N. Human Rights Committee criticized the lack of information about the effect of the Domestic Violence Act in reducing the level of violence against women. (references)
Worker Rights	Honduras	The maquiladoras have raised their minimum employment age, and some hire only at age 18 or above, reducing the number of legal job opportunities available to persons under 18 years of age. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Reducing

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	In addition, we must carry out our plans for reducing the barriers to world trade and increasing its volume.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Inasmuch as this goes a long way toward reducing the danger which faced this Hemisphere four weeks ago, I have this afternoon instructed the Secretary of Defense to lift our naval quarantine.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	This program will impose burdens on all of us with the aim of reducing our consumption of energy and increasing our production.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Education is a key factor in reducing drug abuse.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	We can then begin reducing the national debt.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	But others must recognize that open markets and rule-based trade are the best engines we know of for raising living standards, reducing global poverty and environmental destruction, and assuring the free flow of ideas.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Congress listened to the people and responded by reducing tax rates, doubling the child credit, and ending the death tax.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Reducing

"Reducing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.51% of the time. "Reducing" is used about 2,128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	97.51%	2,075	4,183
Adjective (general or positive)	2.07%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	0.28%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	0.09%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	0.05%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	2,128	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Reducing

Expressions using "reducing": pressure reducing valve ♦ reducing agent ♦ Reducing Agents ♦ reducing balance method ♦ Reducing charge method ♦ reducing coupling ♦ reducing depreciation ♦ reducing diet ♦ reducing furnace ♦ reducing instalment method ♦ reducing of weight ♦ reducing pipe fitting ♦ reducing sugars ♦ reducing to nought ♦ reducing valve ♦ reducing weight. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "reducing": cost-reducing, expenditure-reducing, speed-reducing, sulphate-reducing, weight-reducing.
	Containing "reducing": Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reducing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
reducing cholesterol	76
reducing credit card debt	26
reducing stress	26
reducing high blood pressure	22
reducing debt	21
reducing body fat	18
reducing triglyceride	17
reducing blood pressure	16
fraction reducing	15
reducing agent	15
reducing sugar	15
reducing cellulite	14
reducing employee turnover	12
reducing health care cost	12
cost energy reducing	10
reducing	10
reducing risk	9
reducing cholesterol level	8
check electronic nsf recovery reducing	7
fever reducing	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reducing

Language		Translations for "reducing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		reduktues (reducing agent). (various references)

Arabic		‏تنقيص (diminution, lowering), ‏تقليص (constriction, contraction, curtailment, decrease, diminishing, remission), ‏تحويل (conversion, diversion, endorsement, indorsement, processing, realization, rectification, reduction, relocate, revulsion, transference, transformation, transmutation, version), ‏تصغير (reduction). (various references)

Bulgarian		отслабване (abatement, emasculation, enervation, getting thin, labefaction, losing weight, release, slimming, tabes, tabescence). (various references)

Chinese		减少 (cutback, Decreased, Decreasing, Diminish, Diminished, Diminishing, Diminution, Dwindle, Dwindled, Dwindling, Mio, reduce, reduced, reduction, rundown, Wane, Waned, Waning). (various references)

Danish		opskaering af plader. (various references)

Dutch		verjonging door snijbranden. (various references)

Finnish		ohennusleikkaus. (various references)

French		qui est en régime, délardage, amaigrissant. (various references)

German		Flaechenverjuengung durch Brennschneiden. (various references)

Greek		επιφανειακή αφαίρεση υλικού με φλόγα. (various references)

Hebrew		�"מעט�" (diminishing, lessening), �"רזי�" (sliming, thinning). (various references)

Hungarian		soványító, csökkentõ, csökkentés (abatement, attenuation, curtailment, cut, cutback, cutting, cutting down, derogation, diminution, extenuation, mitigation, reduction, retrenchment, understatement). (various references)

Italian		ritaglio (clipping, cut out, cutout, cutting, reduction, scrap, shred, snip, snippet), riduzione di spessore con ossitaglio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		減殺 (diminishing, lessening). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'�"さい (diminishing, lessening, partial payment of a debt, reduction of a debt). (various references)

Korean		감소 (Decrease, delete, Diminution, reduction, rundown). (various references)

Pig Latin		educingray

Portuguese		desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, dress type, hew, hew down, lop, pare, prune, select, single, Spall, thin out, trim, Whittle). (various references)

Romanian		reductor. (various references)

Russian		редуцирование. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smanjivanje (lessening, retrenchment), mršavljenje. (various references)

Spanish		rebaje con soplete. (various references)

Swedish		avtunning. (various references)

Turkish		zayıflatıcı, zayıflama (attenuation, decay, emaciation, fading, slimming, tabes, wane, weakening), küçültme (depreciation, diminution, dispraise, lessening, making smaller, reduction), kısma (attenuation, ax, axe, pinching, shutoff), indirgen (reducer). (various references)

Vietnamese		bộ giảm tốc (reducing gear), bộ giảm áp (reducing gear). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reducing

Derivations
	Words ending with "reducing": nonreducing, photoreducing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reducing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: retubing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reducing"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reducing" (pronounced ruduw"sing or rēduw"sing)
7	r u d uw" s i ng	introducing, producing, reintroducing, reproducing.
6	-u d uw" s i ng	seducing.
5	-d uw" s i ng	inducing.
4	-uw" s i ng	loosing, overproducing, sluicing, sprucing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, influencing, intermixing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
5	-d uw" s i ng	inducing, introducing, producing, reintroducing, reproducing, seducing.
4	-uw" s i ng	loosing, overproducing, sluicing, sprucing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, influencing, intermixing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reducing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: cringed, curding, deucing, dungier, educing, inducer.
	-2 letters: ceding, cering, cinder, cringe, cueing, curing, dinger, during, engird, gerund, girned, guider, induce, inured, nudger, reding, ringed, ruined, ungird.
	-3 letters: cider, cried, crude, cuing, cured, curie, deign, dicer, diner, dinge, dirge, dunce, genic, gride, grind, guide, incur, indue, inure, nicer, nuder, nudge, nudie, reign, renig, riced, ridge, ruing, runic, under, unrig, ureic, urged, urine.
	-4 letters: cedi, cine, cire, crud, cued, curd, cure, curn, deni, dice, dine, ding, dire, dreg, drug, duce, duci, dune, dung, dure, durn, ecru, genu, gied, gien, gird, girn, grid, grin, grue, gude, guid, iced, ired, nerd, nice, nide, nude, nurd, rein, rend, rice, ride, rind, ring, rude, rued, ruin, rune, rung, unci, unde, urge, uric.
	-5 letters: cig, cud, cue, cur, den, die, dig, din, due, dug, dui, dun, ecu, end, eng, erg, ern, ged, gen, gid, gie, gin, gnu, gun, ice, ire, rec, red, reg, rei, rid, rig, rin, rue, rug, run, urd, urn.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: decurving.
	+2 letters: coenduring, configured, pedicuring, precluding, reinducing.
	+3 letters: centrifuged, corrigendum, decolouring, destructing, glucuronide, nonreducing, prejudicing, reeducating, reinducting, reproducing, superceding, underacting.
	+4 letters: edulcorating, glucuronides, overclouding, reconfigured, recrudescing, rediscussing, rescheduling, undercoating, undercooling, undercutting, underpricing, underscoring, undischarged, unrecognized.
	+5 letters: countersigned, decarburizing, glucuronidase, overeducating, overproducing, photoreducing, prescheduling, recentrifuged, rediscounting, reduplicating, reintroducing, superinducing, undercarriage, undercharging, underclothing, undercoatings, undercounting, underreacting, undiscouraged.
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