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


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