PEDANTICIZES Antonyms

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• shorten

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• lessen, diminish, or curtail

• make clear and (more) comprehensible

• make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating

• undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

• make more concise

• remove water from

• cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid

• become more compact or concentrated

• develop due to condensation

• compress or concentrate

• prevent from being included or considered or accepted

• leave undone or leave out

• make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent

• a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid

• reading or glancing through quickly

• used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed

• travel on the surface of water

• move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of

• examine hastily

• cause to skip over a surface

• coat (a liquid) with a layer

• remove from the surface

• read superficially

• contour economically or efficiently

• give a summary (of)

• be a summary of

• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

• replace a corner by a plane

• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

• make shorter as if by cutting off