Vocabulary
réduire
to reduce; to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures, etc.); to reduce (someone); to reduce (something); to reduce, set; to capture (a place), to quell (opposition etc.); to amount to, to come down to
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mater
to checkmate; to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection); to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
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réprimer
to suppress, quell (stop the spread of something considered bad or wrong); to repress, stifle (prevent the growth of); to repress, muffle (prevent someone speaking out); to hold back, to stunt (make someone refrain from doing something); to cut down, subdue (reduce the level of, e.g. crime)
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mettre à terre
to put down, to beat down, to beat to the ground, to quell, to stomp out, (to defeat)
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