THICKENERS Antonyms

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer

• act of expanding by lengthening or widening

• exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

• the act of diluting something

• reduced in strength

• weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)

• become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude

• reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

• distribute loosely

• to cause to separate and go in different directions

• cause to separate

• move away from each other

• separate (light) into spectral rays

• cause to become widely known

• (of a leaf shape) long and narrow

• having notably more length than width; being long and slender

• make long or longer by pulling and stretching

• extend in scope or range or area

• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

• span an interval of distance, space or time

• make available; provide

• thrust or extend out

• reach outward in space

• offer verbally

• extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body

• expand the influence of

• lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

• extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length

• cause to move at full gallop

• open or straighten out; unbend

• use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity

• prolong the time allowed for payment of

• continue or extend

• increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance

• lessen the density or solidity of

• make more subtle or refined

• weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)