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HSK
to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
HSK 4
to shorten; to reduce; to curtail
HSK 4
(economics) to reduce / to curtail / to cut back / to tighten / austerity / tightening / crunch
HSK 7-9
to concentrate; to condense / (nuclear energy) to enrich / espresso coffee (abbr. for 意式濃縮咖啡|意式浓缩咖啡)
HSK 7-9
to shrink (in the wash) / fig. to shrink (of profits etc)
HSK 7-9
to pull back / to shrink / to contract / (physiology) systole
HSK 7-9
miniature version of sth / microcosm / epitome / (Tw) to microfilm
HSK 7-9
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to cower; to flinch; to quail; to recoil
HSK 7-9
to wither / to dry up (of a plant) / to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc)
HSK 7-9
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
to lengthen and shorten / flexible / adjustable / retractable / extensible / telescoping (collapsible)
HSK 7-9
to compress; compression
HSK 7-9
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to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
scaling / resizing / zoom (graphics)
abbreviation / to abridge
to cut / to reduce
deflation
to decompress / decompression (esp. computer)
a turtle that pulls its head in / (fig.) coward / chicken
to curl up shivering (from cold) / timid and trembling (in fear) / to shrink / to cower
to withdraw / to hole up
cowering / cringing
to economize on clothes and food / to scrimp and save (idiom)
thumbnail (computing)
data compression
enriched uranium
to shrink back in fear (idiom); too cowardly to advance
bound hand and foot (idiom); constrained
compressor
muscular dystrophy
abbreviated word / acronym
to contract / to abbreviate / abbreviation
flexibility
to reprint (a book etc) in a smaller format
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
compact edition (of a dictionary etc)
(medicine) (verb and noun) contracture
abbreviation; short form
abbreviated word / acronym
abbreviation / short form
to condense / to concentrate / compression / concentration
contraction (in grammar) / abbreviation
time-lapse photography
espresso
compression ratio
compact / micro- / miniature / to miniaturize
contraction of the uterus (during childbirth)
(economics) deflation (abbr. for 通貨緊縮|通货紧缩)
(typesetting) to indent
to wrinkle / wrinkled up
to reduce the balance sheet
systolic blood pressure
heat shrink tubing (aka heatshrink) (shrinkable plastic tube used to insulate wires)
breast reduction / reduction mammaplasty
to retreat into; to draw back into / (typography) to indent
systolic blood pressure
uranium enrichment
trombone
(computing) lossy compression
miniature
to shrink into
to tighten / to contract / to shrink in
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
acronym
highly enriched uranium (HEU)
low-enriched uranium (LEU)
to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged
compressible
(computing) compressed archive file
compactor / compressor
microfilm
to cower / to tremble
polypeptide, a chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein / same as 多肽
microfiche
to huddle together / to curl up
(typesetting) to indent
abbreviated character
to make the vagina tighter
to curl up / to huddle / to cower / cringing


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