1. To reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
2. Lessen, diminish, or curtail; SYN. foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce.

1. To punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court.
2. To punish with an arbitrary penalty.
3. To fine; to deprive; to punish

To deprive through death.
1. To deprive of something — usually used with of
2. To take away (a valued or necessary possession) especially by force

ETYM Latin denudare; de- + nudare to make naked or bare, nudus naked. Related to Nude.
To lay bare; SYN. bare, denudate, strip.

1. To declare untrue; contradict.
2. To refuse to accept or believe.
3. To refuse to grant, as of a petition or request.
4. To refuse to let have; SYN. refuse.
5. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge.
6. To restrain, esp. from indulging in some pleasure.

1. To keep from having, keeping, or obtaining.
2. To take away; SYN. impoverish.

1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest.

Divest.

To free from entail.

To deprive especially wrongfully of seisin; dispossess

To seize or deprive of property wrongfully.

1. To deprive of status or authority.
2. To take away one's investment.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: lost).
1. To miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.
2. To fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; fail to keep in mind or in sight.
3. To fail to get or obtain.
4. To allow to go out of sight.
5. To suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.
6. To fail to win.
7. To fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit. + prikaži više

1. To remove from office; SYN. throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel.
2. Force out, dispossess; supplant.